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Someone whose father died of the novel coronavirus in Douala has tested positive of the virus after travelling to Bamenda and organising a symbolic funeral in honour of their father.
Lele Lafrique Tchoffo Deben Adolphe, Governor of Cameroon’s North West Region in his capacity as President of the Regional COVID-19 Pandemic Response Committee said the region recorded its second confirmed case of COVID-19 Thursday, April 23, 2020.
Hear Lele: “The said case is one of ten members of a family which arrived Bamenda from Douala by night in a White MOGHAMO 70-seater bus matriculated NW 960 BC on the 17th of April 2020 breaking the 18th of April 2020, for a symbolic funeral ceremony of their father who died of COVID-19 in Douala and was immediately buried under strict medical supervision.”
The Governor narrates that: “On arrival, they were identified by the medical team in Matazem/Santa, who immediately informed the North West Regional Delegate of Public Health that the group was heading to Nsongwa Village. The Regional Delegate thus dispatched a team which succeeded in locating the compound where the funeral ceremony was taking place.
“After a lot of resistance from the family and with the collaboration of the traditional authorities as well as other community members, all 10 family members were conveyed to the hospital, where their samples were collected for COVID-19 PCR confirmatory testing. They all opted for self-confinement at home.”
Thursday’s press release revealed that the results of tests came out on April 23, 2020, and unfortunately one of the 10 tested POSITIVE for COVID-19, while nine others tested NEGATIVE for COVID-19. The positive case is presently being managed by the health authorities of the Region, Lele said.
The Governor of the North West Region has thus launched an appeal for those who attended the said funeral ceremony in Nsongwa, as well as all passengers of the said bus, to report to Azam Hotel as from Friday, April 24, 2020 at 9 a.m. for testing and confinement, until their results are out.
Lele calls on the entire population to remain calm, while respecting the following hygienic measures to prevent the spread of the disease:
- Stay at home as much as possible and always wear a face MASK when leaving the house.
- Hand washing with clean running water and soap or use an alcohol based solution (Hand Sanitizer).
- Covering the nose and Mouth with a disposable tissue when coughing, sneezing or use a flexed elbow.
- Avoiding close contact with anyone presenting with flu symptoms.
- Maintaining a distance of at least l.5 metres between two or more persons
Lastly, Governor Lele advises the population to remain vigilant and report any suspected case of COVID-19 by dialling any of the following numbers: 233361503, 2 3336 1507, 23336 1508, 677 564650, and 677032723, while avoiding unnecessary travelling and gathering as much as possible, especially by those who might have been exposed to COVID-19.
Cameroon currently counts 1334 cases of the novel coronavirus with 668 of them healed and 43 deaths.
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