Anambra State Government has announced that 29 persons consisting of health workers, relations and business partners of the COVID-19 index case in the State have been quarantined and are waiting to be tested.
The State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala revealed this on Monday.
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Okpala who spoke to journalists in Awka gave details of how the COVID-19 response team in the state searched for the index case from 8 pm to 3 am, after National Centre for Disease Control contacted the government to reveal that a case has been registered in Anambra.