The Abia State COVID-19 medical Rapid Response (RR) Team has finally arrested Vincent Prosper, the suspected COVID-19 patient who was declared wanted on Friday by the NCDC
According to IgbereTV reports, Abia State COVID-19 medical Rapid Response (RR) Team received information from NCDC national control room on a suspected COVID-19 patient named Vincent Prosper who called them from Abia State to report among other things that he was manifesting symptoms of the virus and recently had contacts with a confirmed patient in neighboring Akwa Ibom state in addition to recently returning from Lagos.
The team immediately swung into action and called the number forwarded, took notes and asked the individual to isolate himself pending our arrival to take samples for testing. On arrival at the given location, he disappeared and was later to confess that he saw the ambulance and the fully kitted RR-team, lost courage, detested the possibility of being locked down and decided to switch off his phone and disappear into thin air.
The team continued to look for him quietly and at some point got him again on the phone and he gave a wrong address at Azikiwe Road and a team was immediately dispatched to the location but did not find him there.
At that point, the RR-team decided to enlist the services of a top security agency in the state to find him and also alerted members of the public on Friday regarding the situation in the hope that he would voluntarily come forward. He never did! But late Friday night the security agency pinned his location down and on Saturday morning the RR-team stormed the location with security agents and took him into the RR-team’s custody at the isolation facility at Amachara where some samples from him and dispatched to NCDC for testing.
He is now fully cooperating and all necessary information given, including the fact that while he actually recently returned from Lagos he didn’t visit Akwa Ibom state since his return though he resides in a border community to Akwa Ibom State. His real name is also not Vincent Prosper and he actually made the call to NCDC Control room.
See pictures taken while samples were being collected from him
The Medical Rapid Response Team who revealed that so far, all samples tested from Abia State returned negative, therefore urged members of the public not to see COVID-19 as a death sentence but feel free to call the number, 0700 2242 362, if anyone shows symptoms of the disease, and will be treated with confidentiality and professionalism.
All Comments