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BREAKING: Abba Kyari In Quarantine After Testing Positive For Coronavirus, Buhari Negative

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Alhaji Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus pandemic, according to reports coming in from Abuja, the nation’s capital, this Tuesday morning, March 24, 2020.

According to one of the reports tweeted by Arise TV, President Buhari himself tested negative for the pandemic which has claimed two lives in Nigeria and over 15,000 globally.

Reports say, Kyari travelled to Germany through Egypt on Saturday, March 7 to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme and returned with no symptoms.

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Executive Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Prof James Momoh reportedly accompanied Kyari on the trip to both countries.

According to statistics, Germany has 29,056 infections and 123 deaths while Egypt has recorded 14 fatalities from 327 cases.

The Chief of Staff, 81 year of age is said to have history of diabetes which might have complicated his case when he developed severe cough, one of the symptoms of the COVID-19 which he exhibited during a meeting on containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria all through Sunday, a source privy to the development said.

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The latest development comes hours after a leaked memo showed Kyari telling Nigerian legislators, who recently returned from foreign trips, to submit themselves for Coronavirus test. 

Details later…

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