No fewer than 30 persons are said to have evaded evacuation into the various Isolation centres in Gombe state.
Chairman Task Force committee on covid-19 Professor Idris Mohammed, on Monday revealed that 12 can be accounted for, leaving the taskforce with the burden of 18 people who are outside the confine of the isolation and treatment facilities.
Mohammed noted that this amounts to a major challenge adding that fortunately no evidence from results received indicates community spread.
He explained that, “We have a total of 30 people yet to be evacuated in the state, out of the 30, 5 are Adamawa indigenes we collected their samples and we gave them our Epid numbers and they have since gone back to Adamawa state. So because of the epid numbers they remain our cases on paper but in reality they are in Adamawa state they have been evacuated into care and 2 have been discharged. 2 others were traced to Kano state and we notified the state epidemiologist and they have been placed on isolation, 1 other to Ogun, the state epidemiologist was called and another 1 was traced to Nasarawa state, we called the state epidemiologist and the last 1 to Borno state and he has been evacuated by the state.
“Out of 20 people remaining, they are the ones we are having some challenges evacuating but we are making efforts, as at Sunday we evacuated 2 . The good thing is that as most of them are trying not to come, so they are in self isolation they don’t come out in the open but the traditional rulers and political leaders where they reside are working with the taskforce to ensure they are evacuated, treated and discharged lawfully.”
He added that so far the state has received 80 additional results with 3 new positive cases bringing the covid-19 record of Gombe to 148 and 104 discharged.