COVID-19: Gombe to install, inaugurate testing centre Wednesday
The Gombe state government is to install and inaugurate a coronavirus (COVID-19) testing centre on Wednesday, a task force official has said.
Prof. Idris Mohammed, chairman of the state task force on the COVID-19, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Gombe, while giving an update on the pandemic in the state.
He said that the testing machine would be arriving Gombe on Tuesday, while officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) would be arriving the state on Wednesday, to install and inaugurate it.
According to him, soon after the installation of the machine, testing of suspected cases will begin.
He stated that the presence of the testing centre in the state would ease the difficulties of traveling with samples for testing to other states.
Mohammed noted that so far, 44 out of the 64 ‘almajirai’ pupils, who were quarantined in Amada, had tested negative and have been reunited with their families.
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The chairman said they were still awaiting the remaining 20 results of the pupils who were quarantined.
He said the state was hoping they returned negative adding that as soon as the results were out they would also be reunited with their families.
According to him, there are only 15 persons in the isolation centres, five at the Gombe Specialist Hospital and the remaining 10 at the Kwadon Isolation Centre in Yamaltu-Deba Local Government Area of the state.
