Coronavirus: Go for your test now, Ortom orders deputy governor

The governor said he had ordered his deputy, Benson Abounu, to be tested for coronavirus.



He said 70-year-old Abounu was at a recently held National Economic Council meeting in Abuja.



THEWATCH NEWS Reporter gathered that two attendees at the meeting tested positive for coronavirus.



He said, “We are already tracing of all those Susan Okpe came in contact with.



“In addition, samples of two other ladies have been collected but one among them turned to be negative to the virus.









“I have also told my deputy governor to go for a test having returned from the National Economic Council meeting in Abuja even though he told me that he had no close contact with those suspected to have contracted the virus.”



As of 04:29pm on Saturday, there are 89 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

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