Delta state government has ruled out COVID-19 as the cause of death of the 67-year-old American woman who was reported dead on Sunday May 10 at a hotel in Osubi, Okpe Local Government Area of the state.
The deceased met her Nigerian lover on the internet and came to Nigeria to be with him. They lodged in the hotel until when she became ill and was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead by the doctors.
It was suspected that the woman died of COVID-19 complications, but the coronavirus test results have proved otherwise,
The state government via its Twitter handle, dismissed the claims, saying the test carried out on her showed she was negative for the virus. The boyfriend also tested negative.
The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Mordi Ononye, told residents to be committed to government’s precautionary measures to combat the disease, and stressed that was the only way to curb the spread.
