…Quarantine to be lifted soon
Government officials from the Ministry of Health finally delivered food materials Thursday morning to the beleaguered occupants of Fancy Hotel, Umuguma who were put in quarantine since last Saturday.
Crimefacts.news had exclusively reported that the 24 quarantined hotel occupants were starving as the last time government brought food for them was last Sunday – half bag of rice and scanty ingredients without fish or meat for protein.
The sustained call for action on the part of government yielded divident Thursday morning as the Manager of the Hotel confirmed to Crimefacts.news that government officials from the Ministry of Health has delivered food materials to them.
He said: “The health officials visited us Thursday morning. They had been here Wednesday, they brought nothing but merely asked each of us some questions about our health. We are all fine and we told them all they needed to know.
“So Thursday morning they came again but this time they brought food items for us. They brought one bag of rice, beans, onions, dry fish, vegetable oil, crayfish, yam, tin tomatoes, chicken, pepper and maggi cubes.
“Later the team interviewed us in case of any symptoms, but we are all fine. So they said we may be allowed to go home the next day or later, as soon as they get clearance.”
The Manager particularly commended Mr. Chima Chukwunyere, the Chairman of Imo Hoteliers Association and the group for being their lifeline when there was nobody to complain to.
“Before the government brought us food yesterday, Mr. Chukwunyere himself on behalf of the hoteliers in Imo had brought us help. They brought us different food items, 25 litres of fuel, 10 litres of engine oil and even firewood as we had run out of gas.”
when contacted, Mr. Chukwunyere who did not want to go into details said: “I delivered the food items and left in tears. I saw most of them coming to their barred gate to express appreciation and also convey to me that they had no water to cook the items I brought.”
The Association was reported to have delivered 50 litres of water to the quarantined hotel occupants.
The brighter side of the situation report at Fancy Hotel, Umuguma is the fact that today (Friday) made it a week the hotel was locked down and 15 days the index case, late Christogonus Osuagwu Aguwa left the hotel for Abuja, yet none of the 24 quarantined suspects in the hotel has shown any sign or symptom of the coronavirus.
This should calm the fears of residents of Imo state most of who were apprehensive that the one week gap between the late Aguwa leaving the hotel and the lockdown of the hotel may lead to community level transmission of the virus.
