PHOTO: Dr. Adolphus Yeiah, Bong County Health Officer
By Emmanuel Mafelah,mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
GBARNGA, Liberia- Bong County has recorded its second confirmed case of the COVID-19, barely four days after the county reported its first case on June 4, 2020, in which the patient died.
This comes in the wake of the Liberian government’s relaxation of the lockdown restrictions and the rise in the number of Coronavirus cases in the country.
The victim, according to Bong County Health Officer, Dr. Adolphus Yeiah is a 65-year-old man who died at the Phebe Hospital on Sunday June 7, 2020.
He said the elderly man had gone to the hospital to seek treatment, but died within the facilities.
Dr. Yeiah said his specimen was immediately taken to the reference lab of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia in Monrovia, where it was diagnosed the deceased was a COVID-19 positive.
Eight others who interacted with him have been quarantined, while the County Health Team is working with family members to have him buried, according to the Bong County Health Officer.
Health workers who might have interacted with the deceased are also being traced, he said.
It can be recalled that Bong County recorded its first case of the COVID-19 last Thursday, after a 52 year old man tested positive of the disease.
The latest case, according to Yeah, is not connected to the former, adding, “The old man in person is a resident of the Phebe airstrip community in Suakoko District.
He is meanwhile calling on citizens and residents of the county to keep observing all health protocols in order to limit the spread of the virus in the County.