No fewer than 13 members of the Imo State House of Assembly have tested positive for COVID-19.
Spokesperson for Imo State COVID-19 Task Force, Chimezie Iwuala, revealed this in Owerri, the state capital on Tuesday.
According to him, the results followed a number of tests carried out on samples of members of the House by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.The Chairman, House Committee on Information and Judiciary, Nelson Ezerioha, also confirmed the development toon the phone but added that he doesn’t have the exact figure of his colleagues who tested positive for the disease.Ezerioha said, “You know it is against the law to disclose the identities of the carriers of the virus.
“There are some of us who the NCDC told to go into self-isolation. I don’t know the figure and I am not going to speak on that. I was told by NCDC officials that I am negative.” The Speaker, Collins Chiji, had last week ordered a total lockdown of the Assembly complex after one lawmaker tested positive for COVID-19.
The speaker in a statement had said the fumigation of the Assembly Complex would commence immediately.
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