Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai is not in the Intensive Care Unit as been speculated on social media. The governor via his Twitter handle on March 28, revealed that he tested positive for coronavirus, and recently updated that he has not been discharged. READ: I am still COVID-19 positive – El-Rufai The Chief of Staff to the governor, Muh’d Sani Dattijo revealed in a post that El-Rufai is working from the isolation centre. Dattijo in a tweet on Monday, posted a photo of himself and Elrufia live chatting with the caption, “Mallam Nasir el-Rufai at 2:06pm, Monday 20 April. Alive and Well. Working from isolation. To all the folks tweeting about him in ICU, you shall see it before he does inshaAllah.”
El-Rufia is one of the high profile personalities who tested positive for coronavirus in Nigeria. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo state have recovered and discharged while the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari died of the virus on Friday. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Sunday reported 86 new cases of coronavirus, taking the total of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 627. The cases were reported in Lagos, Abuja (FCT), Katsina, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Jigawa and Borno. Daily Trust Online, had exclusively reported the index case in Borno state – a retired anesthetic nurse working with an international organisation in Pulka town of Gwoza LGA who died of COVID-19 related symptoms. Lagos recorded 70 cases while FCT reported 7 cases. Katsina and Akwa Ibom confirmed three cases each, Bauchi recorded one. Jigawa and Borno recorded index case each. A total of 170 people have been treated and discharged. Twenty-one people have died from the virus. Lagos remains the state with the highest number of infections, 376 as at Sunday evening. Reactions have trailed the photo as well wishers troop in to wish the governor speedy recovery.