Bayelsa State Governor, DOUYE DIRI, has declared a total lock-down in the state.

The governor said only essential workers, pharmaceuticals and foodstuff sellers, are exempted from the restriction of movement.

This announcement follows the confirmed index case of the corona virus in the State.

The index case who is a 47-year-old woman presented herself at the Bayelsa Specialist hospital in Yenagoa with a history of poor appetite, fever, headache, cough, chest pain, for almost a week. 

She also has a history of hypertension, diabetes and denied having any history of travelling outside the state.

Governor DIRI added that she is in a stable condition and has been evacuated to the Isolation center at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri and contact tracing, has begun.