The Delta State government says the result of the coronavirus test for the 67 years old Caucasian American woman, who reportedly slumped and died in a hotel room in Osubi, Okpe Local Government Area on Sunday is out and turned out to be negative.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, who confirmed the test result in a statement on Tuesday, said the young man suspected to be the deceased boyfriend also tested negative to the coronavirus as samples of him and the deceased woman were taken for tests.
Real-Time24 learnt that, the lady’s boyfriend who took her corpse to the Orerokpe Police Station was later admitted at the Isolation Unit in Central Hospital, Warri, for fear that he may be carrying the virus.