20 Generals Test Positive For COVID-19. SGF In Isolation.

About twenty officers have reportedly tested positive for Covid-19, about one week after the death of the General Officer Commanding 6 Divisions; Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Major General John Irefin, who died of complications from the disease.

The infected military officers were believed to have had contact with the deceased during the Chief of Army Staff’s annual conference 2020, in Abuja, last week.

The conference was cancelled following Irefin’s passage and the participants, including Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi; and GOC’s from nearly all the army divisions nationwide, who were directed to go on self-isolation.

Following the development, the COAS did not attend the wedding of his son in Abuja on Friday.

It was gathered on Sunday that some of the infected GOCs and principal officers were being treated at the COVID-19 isolation center, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja.

Some of the patients were also being quarantined at other isolation centers in the Federal Capital Territory.

The development, it was learnt, has sparked panic among top military brass who had yet to take the COVID-19 test.

A source said; “The report is true, I know about four generals who returned positive and are being treated for the disease”.

Meanwhile, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has gone into self-isolation after some members of his household tested positive for COVID-19.

Mustapha, who is also the chairman of the Presidential Task Force, on COVID-19, made this known in a statement on Sunday.

The statement was titled; “Some members of SGF household test positive to COVID-19”.

It read; “I would like to inform the general public that some members of my household tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday evening.

”Although they are currently asymptomatic, they have been isolated and are receiving care in one of the government treatment centers”.

“My wife and I tested negative, but will remain in self-isolation and work from home according to protocols by the health authorities.

”I would like to remind all Nigerians that COVID-19 is real. As the Nigeria Center for Disease Control announced last week, we are recording an increase in cases across several states”.

”Please stay safe and protect yourselves. Adhere to all public health and safety measures so that we do not lose the gains we have made in the fight against COVID-19. Please take responsibility for yourself and protect our country”.