The Administration of the Jackson F. Doe Memorial Regional Referral Hospital in Tappita City lower Nimba County has reported about three new cases of the coronavirus in the county.
Making the disclosure to a reporter on Tuesday in Tappita, one of the medical Doctors said, the three coronavirus patients are all men including a health care worker, a preacher of the gospel and an ordinary resident of an adjacent community in Tappita are currently being held in isolation at the referral hospital.
Dr. Momolu Masally who is one of the doctors on the JFD coronavirus taskforce confirmed that the patients are being cared for by the facility.
According to Dr. Masallay, the corona virus is being treated not as an ordinary disease, adding the cases recently reported are being held in isolation, away from the regular patients at the hospital.
He explained that the JFD is working with the office of the District Health Officer to effect surveillance and the contact tracing following the report.
It can be recalled that in April of this year, the JFD reported its first coronavirus cases with a Liberian who returned to the country from America and died.
The hospital also recalled another case with a local broadcast journalist who works at the Voice of Tappita in Nimba County.
JFD on its official facebook page on April 18, 2020 wrote at the time announcing its second covid-19 case. “JFD hospital has recorded its second case.
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