Five suspected COVID-19 cases test negative in Borno

Borno State Government on Sunday confirmed that the five suspected COVID-19 cases isolated in the state’s Public Health and Emergency Operation Centre had tested negative for the disease.

The state Commissioner for Health, Salisu Kwayabura, disclosed this in a chat with journalists in Maiduguri, the state capital.

Kwayabura said the five persons willingly submitted themselves for a test following their history of travelling to countries with the highest coronavirus cases.

He said: “The results from the specimen taken from the five suspected cases for a test at the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Abuja, came back negative.

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“The five persons were quarantined and closely monitored by the state task force on the prevention against COVID-19.

“The Health and the Emergency Operation Centres are functioning at an optimal level and fully ready to deal with any emergency in the state.”

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