The Chairman of Borno State High Powered Committee on COVID-19, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, has said 44 suspected cases of COVID-19 in the state have tested negative.
He made this known on Tuesday in Maiduguri at the maiden daily briefing of the committee.
Kadafur, who is also the Deputy Governor of Borno State, said the result of two other suspected cases were still being awaited.
He said the state now had three cases comprising the index case and the person that contracted it from him, while the third was an indigene of the state from Lagos State that was intercepted in Gombe State, where he was tested and confirmed positive.
“He is now at the isolation centre,” Kadafur said.
Kadafur said the committee had so far tracked 104 individuals of interest that are placed under observation.
