Two military men have tested positive for coronavirus [COVID-19] in Bayelsa State, an official announced in a statement on Monday.
According to the deputy chairman of the Bayelsa State COVID-19 Task Force, Dr Inodu Apoku, the duo were part of the three new cases announced for the state by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control [NCDC] on Sunday.
Apoku said the third patient was a household contact to the two military officers.
The three new confirmed cases brought to four the number of cases Bayelsa had recorded within three days.
The total number of confirmed cases in the state currently stands at 11 with five active cases while six patients had been discharged and no death recorded so far.
Apoku, who is also the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health, said,
“The three new cases announced yesterday are a cohort. They were referred to us by a medical doctor.
“Their cases were investigated, and samples collected. They are also not epidemiologically linked to any of our previously confirmed cases but admitted to recent travel histories to Lagos and Delta States.
“Two of them are military men while the third is a household contact to one of the two. They are all males.”
He said they had been evacuated to one of the state’s isolation centres and were all clinically stable and receiving medical care.
