{"id":24792,"date":"2020-05-06T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=24792"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:21:20","slug":"four-doctors-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-bauchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/four-doctors-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-bauchi","title":{"rendered":"Four doctors test positive for Coronavirus in Bauchi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n

No fewer than four doctors in Bauchi state have so far tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Six other health workers have suffered the same fate as the pandemic ravages.<\/p>\n

This was disclosed by the Executive Chairman of the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BASPHCDA), Dr. Rilwan Mohammed, while giving a situation update on the pandemic at the Government House, Bauchi, the state capital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201dSo many doctors and nurses are getting infected in that area and their families are also infected and we have to follow their families up.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe health workers who have tested positive include \u201cfour doctors, six other health workers including some nurses.<\/p>\n

Some of them are in Bauchi while some are in Azare but we have a higher number of them in the Azare zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nation reports the total number of confirmed cases in the state has risen to 83 with 77 active cases while six have been discharged so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa Press-Nigeria: No fewer than four doctors in Bauchi state have so far tested positive for coronavirus. Six other health workers have suffered the same fate as the pandemic ravages. 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