“However, the young man in question chose to go into hiding.”
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Salisu Kwaya-Bura, made this known on Sunday in Maiduguri while giving an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
Kwaya-Bura who is the Secretary of the State High Powered Taskforce on Covid-19 said surveillance teams have been deployed to locate and return them to the isolation centre. “When samples of patients with contacts to index cases are collected, they are normally advised to go on self-isolation.
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