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Five people, including a nurse and another administrative staff of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ogun.

This comes days after the Accident and Emergency Complex of the facility was shut down, following the death of a pregnant woman who was discovered to be positive after she passed on; another man, who was also treated at the FMC, tested positive for the virus.

Segun Orisajo, the FMC’s head of public relations and information, confirmed the development in a statement issued on Saturday.

“Two patients who tested positive for coronavirus early this week at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, were this evening transferred to the Ogun State isolation facility at Ikenne,” it read.

“Yesterday, the Centre confirmed the two cases in a statement.

“Further to those, the Centre hereby confirmed the case of another three patients, whose test results just returned positive. Two of them are staff of this Centre, a nurse and an administrative staff which brings the total number to five.

“So far, no doctor in the Centre has tested positive for coronavirus contrary to some media reports.”

As of May 9, 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had recorded 115 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ogun.