In an effort to curb the deadly Corona Virus in Nigeria, the federal government has tested the ministers for COVID-19.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed at a press conference in Abuja yesterday.
The minister, while answering a question as to whether he and his colleagues were tested for the virus, said, “We were tested yesterday (Wednesday) but I am not at liberty to talk about my colleagues, my result was negative.”
Meanwhile, the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule; his deputy, Dr Emmanuel Akabe, and a man in isolation have tested negative for coronavirus.
The deputy governor, who is the Chairman of the state Quick Response Committee, said, “Governor Abdullahi Sule, I and the man in isolation at Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, in Lafia, have all been given our samples in Lafia, The samples were taken for test at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, and the results for all the three of us are negative.”
But Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said the result of the test conducted on the state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, had not been released.
Fayemi had on Wednesday tweeted, “I just took the COVID-19 test having gone into self-isolation since yesterday (Tuesday) evening. I’m asymptomatic and feel well, but I was in meetings with two people who had since tested positive. I look forward to an all clear.”
The commissioner, who spoke in Ado Ekiti while giving update on the COVID-19 situation in the state, said, “The only patient, who tested positive for coronavirus in the state last week, is in a stable condition at the state isolation centre where he is undegoing treatment.”
Yaya-Kolade said that the contacts had been identified and put under isolation with thorough monitoring and all of them were stable with no signs.”
The commissioner advised all residents of the state to live by sense of social responsibility to fight the scourge of coronavirus by maintaining social distancing order of the state.
The wife of the governor, Bisi, said that she had been in self-isolation since she arrived in Nigeria from the United Kingdom on March 19.
The governor’s wife, who made the disclosure in her write-up titled ‘Self Isolation’ in her Above Whispers series, stated, “I have been in self-isolation since I got back.
“In the over 30 years we have been married, my husband and I have never slept in separate beds if we are home together. The fear of coronavirus has changed that for now,” she said.
Giving details of what happened on arrival at the airport, she said, “My temperature was taken, as well as my photograph. My passport was stamped and I was free to go. I was not given any direct advice on self-isolating for 14 days since I had just returned from a high-risk country or a number to call should I develop symptoms.
