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Nigeria's army headquarters isolating following COVID-19 outbreak

Published 14/12/2020, 00:33
Updated 14/12/2020, 00:36
© Reuters.

By Camillus Eboh
ABUJA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Nigeria's army headquarters was
isolating due to a COVID-19 outbreak during an annual
conference, a spokesman said on Sunday, after health officials
warned of a second wave of the disease in Africa's most populous
nation.
The outbreak was detected after a general commanding officer
based in Rivers state tested positive after attending the Abuja
event. He died due to complications from the disease on Dec. 10,
and as of Sunday, 26 people who attended the event had tested
positive.
"All officers and soldiers working at the army headquarters
are being tested and COVID-19 protocols being strictly
enforced," spokesman Sagir Musa said in a statement, adding that
the complex was also fumigated.
A spokesman for the presidency said earlier on Sunday that
the Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu
Buratai, was in Katsina leading rescue operations for hundreds
of kidnapped schoolchildren. The man who died, Major General JO Irefin, had been treated
for malaria before testing positive for COVID-19.
On Friday, Lagos state Governor Babjide Sanwo-Olu tested
positive for the virus, while earlier on Sunday, officials said
family members of Boss Mustapha, chairman of the nation's
COVID-19 task force, had tested positive for the disease, though
he had not.
Last week, Health Minister Osagie Ehanire warned that
Nigeria could be on the verge of a second wave of COVID-19
infections amid rising number of confirmed cases.
Nigeria has 73,175 confirmed cases and 1,197 deaths due to
the disease.

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