Liberia Public Radio has reliably gathered that at least six staff of Voice of Tappita Radio station in electoral District#6 where a local journalist was tested positive for COVID-19 have quarantined.
Jeremiah Gayflor, a journalist working for Voice of Tappita has been tested positive of COVID-19 recently at Jackson F. Doe regional referral hospital bring it to two the number of confirmed cases from the county.
One Don Patrick whose family members are yet to concede that their relative died of the virus after he fell off from the nearby town of Zoutou and was rushed to the hospital and died on arrival.
Family members of the late Patrick have since distanced his death from coronavirus infection claiming that he was poisoned.
The Daily Observer newspaper quoted a clergyman in Tappita, Pastor Charles Miller as saying that nobody is entering the radio station which is one of the major medium through which information is disseminated due to the confirmation of COVID-19 of a journalist who work for the station.
According to Pastor Miller, all they do in the case of any announcement is to make a phone call, but as for now the compound has become a no go zone for the ordinary people.
It is not clear how this reporter contracted this deadly disease, as there has been no report of any connection with any of the index cases, either in Tappita or elsewhere in the county.
According to some citizens in Tappita, the reporter last week visited his home village of Ziah, West of Tappita, and he returned with symptoms of malaria and went to seek medical treatment at the Jackson Fiah Doe Referral Hospital.
Ebenezer Strother, an administrator of JFD, told voice of Saclepea Radio station last week that after testing Jeremiah, he was sent home and asked not to associate himself with others but be in isolation till the arrival of the specimen taken from him and sent to Monrovia.
“When the result arrived after three days, Strother said it was the time Jeremiah was called back at which time he had ignored the advice and mingled with other people in the community, Mr. Strother alarmed.
Nimba County District #6 Representative Dorwoan Gleekia has asked the citizens to remain calm and abide by all protocols in the fight against Coronavirus.
In the main time, Journalist Jeremiah Gayflor has been transferred to the 14 Military Hospital in Monrovia for treatment, where he is said to be in stable condition.
Currently Liberia has 101 confirmed cases of novel Coronavirus since it was announced in March this year.
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