The Abia state government has announced that a fleeing coronavirus patient Vincent Prosper, who had earlier had contact with a confirmed case in Akwa Ibom is now in custody, ABN TV reports.

The suspected patient was tracked down with the help of security agents who pinned him to his location after he had severally refused to turn up for testing.

A release signed by the Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu on Saturday says, "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.

"Our 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.

"We continued to look for him quietly and at some point got him again on the phone and he gave us a wrong address at Azikiwe Road and a team was immediately dispatched to the location but did not find him there.

"At that point, we decided to enlist the services of a top security agency in the state to find him and also alerted members of the public yesterday regarding the situation in the hope that he would voluntarily come forward. He never did! But late last night, the security agency pinned his location down and this morning our RR-team stormed the location with security agents and took him into custody at our isolation facility at Amachara where we have now collected samples from him and dispatched to NCDC for testing."

The government says the suspect, Vincent Prosper 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.

Source: https://abntv.ng/2020/04/breaking-fleeing-suspected-covid-19-patient-captured-in-abia-quarantined-photos/

Cc; lalasticlala, Mynd44

Ignorance at its peak. Instead of you to wait and receive treatment, you're running trying to infect others. Naso one aboki from one northern state like that washed his hands and drank the water.
May God continue to save us from this deadly virus oo. Kai, I dey fear for Kano State

Nawa oh

what's that saying

you can run but you can't hide


corona got us like

Lol.....the guy dey laff dem sef.

I wonder what's funny to him

Heeeyyyy!!!
Vincent, it would have been better you came out earlier for your life's sake.....
You will be fine my dear.

Hope that big woman actually knows what she's doing though?

Na wa ooo who know how many people he go don contact with
Or wether he won spread the virus give him family

This pandemic revealed the level of ignorance/illiteracy in Nigeria. Even the so called graduates

Nawaoo

Nawaoo
The woman be like football, na she be the original gburugburu

"CAPTURED " got me laughing!!

After being tested negative of the virus, he should be quarantined in the cell as well!!! Attempted murder.

elchapoo:
Nawaoo The woman be like football, na she be the original gburugburu

Lol. You guys are just so crazily funny in this County! But many thanks for the good laughs!

I wonder where majority of our citizens are bn manufactured from, simple rule is hard to abide by both the leaders and masses. After isolation quarantine him with one hot slap at his back head, maybe coronavirus don loose one nut from his brain

all Thanks be to God dat he has been captured

but he deserve dis sweet blow alittle

OdefaGirl:
Heeeyyyy!!!
Vincent, it would have been better you came out earlier for your life's sake.....
You will be fine my dear.

Hope that big woman actually knows what she's doing though?

The woman big oh