The Police have sealed up the building housing a clinic where the second index case of COVID-19 was admitted in Warri South Council Area of Delta State before he was transferred to the isolation centre of Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara.
The state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, had on Thursday night announced that a patient suspected to have contracted Coronavirus in the state had died.
BusinessDay, however, gathered that the deceased was admitted at a clinic (name withheld) located at Ugbori, off Ekurede-Itsekiri Road in Warri.
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Confirming the sealing up of the building to BusinessDay, a source at the Warri South Council who pleaded anonymity, said that the building was sealed by authorities of the council in conjunction with the police at A Division Warri, led by the DPO, Onyeke Ezekiel, and some community leaders.
Some residents of the densely populated area who were not happy with the action of the police initially resisted the authorities.
The storey building where the clinic is housed has residential occupants, with the clinic occupying just one of the apartments.
It was also gathered that the deceased was a top management staff of the BEDC in Warri and the pastor of a popular church. Before his death, he was first admitted to the clinic, before he was rushed to Delta State University Teaching Hospital at Oghara, where he died before his test result was released.
