COVID-19: Journalist, wife test positive in Kano
Nasir Ibrahim told PREMIUM TIMES that he developed the symptoms following an official engagement with a former media aide to President Umaru Yar’Adua, Rabiu Musa, in Kano.
Mr Musa was the chief press secretary to Mr Yar’Adua when he was a governor of Katsina State. Before his death, he was UNICEF’s chief communication officer in Kano. On Tuesday, Mr Ibrahim announced his test result and that of his wife to colleagues that the samples returned positive.READ ALSO:He added that “I had a contact with the communication officer of UNICEF, Kano field office on April 22. He died of COVID-19 on May 2, and my sample was taken on May 6. I got the result today, Tuesday, May 12, which shows we are positive.
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