The Bauchi State Government on Tuesday confirmed that another official of World Health Organisation has tested positive for Coronavirus Disease, bringing the number of active cases in the state to three.
The Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi.
NAN recalls that on April 21, a WHO staff tested positive of COVID-19 in Bauchi.
Mohammed said the new case was through contact tracing of the first WHO official that tested positive after an earlier travel to Kano State.
He said: “The new case is another WHO staff.
“This new case is a contact from the first WHO staff that tested positive because his contacts from Kano and Bauchi were traced and isolated.”
