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Buhari Tests Negative For COVID-19, While Abba Kyari Is Positive

Buhari Tests Negative For COVID-19, While Abba Kyari Is Positive

 

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for the COVID-19 (Coronavirus), following a test for the disease that was carried out yesterday on the president by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

According to Thisday, presidential sources say the test for the president was necessitated after his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari tested positive on Monday. Kyari had travelled to Germany on Saturday, March 7 to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme. He returned exactly one week later on Saturday, March 14, but did not show any symptoms.

He was said to have been at a meeting on containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria all through Sunday, March 22 where he reportedly started to cough. Subsequently, he voluntarily submitted himself for testing and was informed of his status yesterday.

Kyari has however gone into absolute isolation following the test result. He is said to be hale and hearty and showing no symptoms apart from the occasional cough.

Angela Davies

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