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IDP who led funeral prayer for index case in Borno tests positive for covid-19

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An Internally Displaced Person (IDP) has tested positive for the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic in Borno State.

The IDP, whose name was not given, tested positive for the virus after leading funeral prayer for the first index Covid-19 case in the state, the late MSF nurse.

This development was made public on Friday evening at the daily media Covid-19 briefings in the state by the secretary, Borno State High Powered Response Team for the Control and Prevention of Covid-19, Dr. Saliyu Kwaya-bura.

Kwaya-bura, who is also the state’s Commissioner for Health, explained that the infected IDP hailed from the Bakassi IDPs camp.

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He said that the infected IDP had been taken to isolation centre where he was being monitored.

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