Nasarawa govt traces 74 contacts of lawmaker who died of COVID-19

Nasarawa State Government said it has traced 74 contacts directly linked with the late Nasarawa State House of Assembly, (NSHA) Adamu Suleiman Ibrahim, who died from complications related to coronavirus.

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, disclosed this in an opening remarks during an expanded meeting to review measures put in place to control and contain the further spread of COVID-19, at the Government House, on Tuesday.

According to him: “Our team is currently in Nasarawa taking samples of all the members of his family.

“The 74 contacts are all in Nasarawa and has nothing to do with the contacts he had at the assembly.”

He explained further that out of that number, samples from 10, who are considered high risk, were taken for test.

Governor Sule added that the House of Assembly had been fumigated as preventive measure.

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He stated that Keffi has been added to high risk areas because of the number of positive cases isolated at the FMC Keffi.

He stressed that the decision was also taken to designate Keffi as high risk area because health workers may have come in contact with the deceased.

Governor Sule said the state has so far recorded 12 positive cases.