“Contracting Lassa fever was a very bad experience”, says 41 years old Marian Oyinbor, a resident of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area (LGA), Edo state, who was treated for Lassa Fever – a haemorrhagic disease which has killed 98 people in Nigeria in 2022. For Marian and her household, it is an experience she […]
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“Contracting Lassa fever was a very bad experience”, says 41 years old Marian Oyinbor, a resident of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area (LGA), Edo
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SHEHU, a social media publicist who asked to be identified with his first name did not have headaches or fever when he walked in to know his status at Thisday Dome, a makeshift treatment and isolation centre for COVID-19 cases located in Central Area, Abuja on December 4, 2020.
But when a colleague in his office tested positive, every staff in the media firm where he worked were compelled to self-isolate and get themselves tested.
At the testing centre at Thisday Dome, Shehu had throat and nasal swabs taken from him by officials of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, before he was issued a verification number and told the outcome of the test would be sent to him via a text message on his mobile phone.