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Breaking: Cross River Lawmaker Dies in Calabar after Showing COVID-19 Symptoms

Femi Ashekun/

Lawmaker representing Obudu Constituency at the Cross River State House of Assembly, Hon. Godwin Akwaji, has died after showing symptoms of COVID-19.

NewsmakersNG learnt that the lawmaker died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) earlier today.

Akwaji was said to be diabetic and also exhibited fatigue, fever, cough and breathlessness before he died.

Cross River remains the only state where no case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the country.

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