{"id":21358,"date":"2020-06-16T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21358"},"modified":"2020-06-16T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:12:30","slug":"gombe-commissioner-lawmaker-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21358","title":{"rendered":"GOMBE: Commissioner, lawmaker test positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Gombe State government has confirmed that another executive member and one member of the state House of Assembly have both been confirmed to be positive for the dreaded COVID-19 virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was revealed on Monday during a press briefing by Gombe State Task Force committee chairman on COVID-19, Professor Idris Muhammad, who also informed that the committee has tested no fewer than 3,668 people with 410 turning out to be positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike Lagos State, Gombe has embarked on massive testing as a result of the number of confirmed cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFour commissioners, five members of state House of Assembly and a Special Adviser to the governor were earlier confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 thus far,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This came days after the Deputy Speaker of the Gombe State<\/a> House of Assembly, Siddi Buba, tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He disclosed his COVID-19 status to the Gombe State-owned media corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buba, who was elected the deputy speaker in 2019, is the sixth lawmaker in the state to test positive for the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has since joined other state government officials on self-isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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