Gombe Speaker, Four Lawmakers Test Positive For COVID-19

The Speaker of the Gombe State House Of Assembly, Abubakar Sadiq Ibrahim and four other lawmakers have tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Reports say the other legislators’ identities are yet to be known.

This was disclosed on Monday after results of the samples sent to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) laboratory were released.

The lawmakers were said to have been admitted at the treatment centres in the state.

Also, contact tracing of everyone, who had contact with the lawmakers, was said to have started.

Gombe currently has 217 cases of the disease.