18 ARMY GENERALS TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
About 18 Nigerian Army Generals have tested positive for COVID-19, military sources said on Sunday, December 13.
The infected senior military officers were said to have had contact with late Major General Olu Irefin, who died from COVID-19 complications last week.
Recall that Major General Irefin fell ill at the 2020 Chief of Army Staff Conference last week and was taken to the hospital, where he was tested positive for the infection and was receiving treatment before he died.
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According to the sources, the affected officers were attendees of the 2020 Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference, at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre in Abuja.
Besides, late General Irefin was said to have visited some of his colleagues at home before he attended the conference.
Thereafter, all the officers who attended the conference, their wives, and other members of their families who live with them, have been directed to isolate themselves for a week by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
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The sources revealed that the affected senior army officers were mostly those who came from outside Abuja and have been tested by officials of the NCDC.
However, others who were in the nation’s capital are yet to take the test for the virus.
It was also gathered that the venue of the aborted conference, the Nigerian Army Resource Centre in Asokoro, has been decontaminated by health officials at the weekend
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