By William Selmah, with contribution from Garmah Never Lomo
Monrovia-Health authorities in Monrovia have confirmed additional two deaths resulting from COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to three.
Liberia’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Ketteh told www.newspublictrust.com on Sunday, April 5, 2020, that the infected persons died in his community “in the Vai Town/Clara Town belt, close to the center of the Liberian capital while the other patient died at a local hospital.
The two deaths, he also mentioned, are inclusive of the three cases confirmed Sunday April 5, 2020 in Monrovia.
This means that Liberia has now recorded 13 confirmed cases and three deaths resulting from COVID-19.
Health authorities have repeatedly called on the public to adhere to the restrictions and preventive measures issued by government.
Institutions of learning are at the moment closed throughout Liberia, with government sunning on skeletal staff at most offices as part of measures to contain the pandemic.
There has however been no provision so far for voluntary testing centers even in Monrovia and other urban settings.
The first person to come down positive with the virus is the suspended Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Nathaniel Blama, who was diagnosed after he returned home from a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland many weeks ago.
But a series of tests on him have subsequently come out negative as with two other persons who had earlier tested positive in recent days.