Just In: COVID-19 Speaker, 4 Lawmakers, Commissioner Test Positive In Gombe

The Speaker of the Gombe State House of Assembly and four other lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, one of the popular newspaper in Abuja can reports . An impeccable source told our correspondent that the speaker, Abubakar Sadiq Ibrahim and the four other members of the Assembly, whose identities are not yet known have been confirmed to have contracted the virus after their results returned positive.

According to the source, the speaker and the lawmakers have been admitted at different isolation centres in the state for treatment, while the samples of members of the speaker’s family have been taken for testing. Meanwhile, the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Mijinyawa Yahaya was also confirmed positive for COVID-19.