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Wife Delivers Twins Month after COVID-19 Killed First Health Worker in Nigeria

Ololade Adeyanju/

The wife of the first health worker killed by COVID-19 in Nigeria has delivered a set of twins barely a month after the doctor died while treating patients in Lagos.

NewsmakersNG learnt that the male twins were a spitting image of their late father, Dr Emeka Chugbo.

Dr Chugbo died on April 16 from complications linked to Coronavirus.

He had allegedly managed a COVID-19 patient who later died on April 3.

Dr Emeka Chugbo

Chugbo died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where he was once a staff before joining the private sector.

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