Commissioners test positive to COVID-19 in Gombe

Three commissioners in Gombe State were on Tuesday declared to have tested positive to coronavirus.

The Commissioner of Information and Culture, Ibrahim Alhassan, at the media briefing of the Task Force on coronavirus in the state, stated that the three commissioners were detected to be coronavirus positive during testing of the 21 commissioners and the governor’s aides in Gombe State.

Alhassan disclosed that the test results of one of the governor’s aides and five members of the Gombe State House of Assembly were positive.

“We conducted massive tests for all the government functionaries – the commissioners, special advisers, and all the staff of the Government House.

“Out of the 21 commissioners, it is unfortunate that we are having three positive cases. Of the special advisers, we have one positive case,” the commissioner said.

The further said: “Of the members of the State House of Assembly, we have five positive cases.”

The commissioner appealed: “Therefore, all hands need to be on deck to see that we fight this pandemic head-on and as of today, permanent secretaries and directors in all the government ministries and agencies are now undergoing the screening (the test).”