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JUST IN: Senior Police Officer Tests Positive For COVID-19

An Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Abuja, has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19.

According to News Express, the senior police officer whose identity was not disclosed has been taken to the isolation centre.

“he has been taken to an Isolation Center in Abuja on Friday,” the media outfit quoted an ‘impeccable source to have said.

Conversely, the source at the Louis Edet House, in the Nigerian capital did not reveal more information.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had on Sunday confirmed 248 new COVID-19 cases in Nigeria, taking the total number to 4,399.

Eighty-one of the new cases were in Lagos State, 35 in Jigawa, while Borno and Kano states each had 26 new confirmed cases.

Twenty new cases were confirmed for Bauchi, 13 in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, 12 in Edo, 10 in Sokoto and seven in Zamfara.

Kwara and Kebbi each had four new cases; Gombe, Taraba, Ogun and Ekiti each had two cases, while Osun and Bayelsa had a case each.

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