Acting secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mohammed Kawu has said presidential aides and other attendees at the burial of late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, have tested negative for COVID-19.
The high number of presidential aides at Kyari’s funeral, held at Gudu Cemetery, Abuja, despite an existing lockdown and gatherings of large crowd lead to criticism from the public.
The FCTA responded by placing the attendees on quarantine . Senior Government officials were however exempted from the compulsory isolation.
Kawu cleared the attendees in a statement.
“The Health and Human Services Secretariat of the FCT Administration, is happy to announce that the individuals exposed during the burial of late Chief of staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, have completed their 14 days of isolation.
“Tests were conducted on them and they have all tested negative to COVID 19. They have been reunited with their families”, The statement read in part.
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