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Publisher (J.T)
August 13, 2019
The Ebonyi state government hascalled on residents not to panic over the reported yellow fever outbreak in thestate.
The State’s Commissioner for Health,Daniel Umezurike gave the assurance in Abakaliki while addressing newsmen,urging the people to, however, observe all precautionary processes for the disease.
Umezurike urged residents to ignoreconflicting information on the number of causalities from the outbreak,stressing that authentic figure of deaths from the disease was two.
The Commissioner clarified therumour of an unknown illness in Ndinwigwe, Ndingele ward of Izzi LocalGovernment Area, noting that the state’s Rapid Response Team, RRT was deployedto the area to investigate.
He noted that six patients werepresently on admission in various Hospital.
Also Secretary to Ebonyi Government,Kenneth Ugbala said the government through the health ministry had creditablycurtailed the outbreak through drastic interventions.