<p class="">The Gombe State Taskforce on COVID-19 says the state has recorded its first death from Coronavirus.</p>
<h1>Prof. Idris Mohammed, Chairman of the State Task Force on COVID-19, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Gombe.</h1>
<p class=""><strong>Mohammed </strong>said the deceased, who was a 50-year-old man with high blood pressure, died about 4pm. on Sunday, having been rushed to the state’s treatment centre from Kwadon isolation centre.</p>
<p class="">According to him, the state has so far tested 1,168 persons, out of which 118 have tested positive to the virus.</p>
<p class="">“<em>But unfortunately, I have bad news for you.</em></p>
<p class=""><em>“We have now recorded our first COVID-19 associated death and this was a 50-year-old man who was known to have high blood pressure otherwise known as hypertension but was not undergoing treatment.</em></p>
<p class=""><em>“Our attention was drawn to him by his village head after a trip from Bauchi. He noticed he was not quite himself; we took him to Kwadon isolation centre, took his sample and his result returned positive.</em></p>
<p class=""><em>“He collapsed at 6am. yesterday and was rushed to the state’s Specialist Hospital where he was attended to by the consultant at intensive care unit but he unfortunately developed stroke.</em></p>
<p class=""><em>“We proposed that the immediate cause of death is massive bleeding to his brain due to the bursting of blood vessel. However, since he was positive to COVID-19; we regard this as COVID-19 associated death,</em>” he said.</p>
<p class="">The chairman also stated that some results had returned negative and<em> “ that means we will be discharging them later today but for now I cannot tell you their number.”</em></p>
<p class="">Mohammed also stated that the state government had improved on facility management to enhance the welfare of the patients at isolation centres, adding that their feeding had also improved tremendously.</p>
<p class="">He said that the taskforce had taken more proactive measures to strengthen security at isolation centres so as to prevent any recurrence of patients getting out of the facilities.</p>
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