President Buhari Tested Negative as Abba Kyari Tested Positive For Corovirus

151

President Muhammadu Buhari has tested negative for Coronavirus, following a test for the disease that was carried out on the president by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

The center has informed the president on the outcome his negative result this morning in Abuja.

According to presidential sources, the test for the president was necessitated after his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

Kyari had travelled to Germany on Saturday, March 7th and returned exactly one week later on Saturday, March 14th, but did not show any symptoms.

He was said to have been at a meeting on containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria all through Sunday, where he reportedly started to cough.