TARABA: 12 health workers test positive for Covid-19 at FMC

THE Acting Head of Clinical Services at the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo, Dr. Ishaya Kwala,  has said twelve workers in the hospital, comprising three medical doctors and nine nurses, have tested positive for Covid-19.

He disclosed this while speaking to journalists  after an emergency meeting of the technical committee on Covid-19 in the state.

He, however, added that the health workers were responding to treatment.

In his remarks, the Chief Medical Director of the State Specialist Hospital, Dr. Alex Maiyangwa, said mass testing for COVID-19 was ongoing at the hospital.

“In the last one month we have tested 363 cases and 60 without the health workers turned out positive,” Maiyangwa added.

Meanwhile, following the surge in the cases of the virus in the state, the government through the technical committee has ordered the compulsory wearing of facemasks by residents in public places.

Chairman of the committee, Dr. Innocent Vakkai, who conveyed the government’s directive called on the residents to support government efforts to check the spread of the virus.