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9 Corps members Test Positive for COVID-19 in Niger

No fewer than 9 members of the National Youth Service Corps deployed to Niger state have tested positive for COVID-l9, investigations have revealed.

Our Reporter learnt that the corps members were discovered to be positive after tests carried out on them when they reported for the two-week orientation programme at the Paiko temporary orientation camp.

It was learnt that those affected had already been placed in isolation in one of the government facilities in the state.

The development it was gathered stopped those concerned from passing out with others on Tuesday after the two-week orientation programme.

They are doing fine in the isolation centre, ” a top official of the State Task Force on COVID-19.

No official of the State NYSC directorate was prepared to volunteer information officially on the development, however when contacted the state Commissioner for Information Alhaji Mohammed Sani Idris confirmed the development, saying that the relations of the affected Youth Corps members have been informed.

The Commissioner also confirmed that the Task Force on COVID-19 in the state had begun the fumigation of the House of Assembly complex following the discovery that the Speaker Abdullahi Bawa Wuse and Clerk of the Assembly Alhaji Abdullahi Kagara tested positive for COVID-19 recently.

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