Posted on: Wed 17-06-2020

There was panic at the Imo State House of Assembly complex in Owerri on Tuesday as health workers deployed by the state government arrived at the complex. The deployment of the health workers from the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, followed the news that filtered in that some people at the complex, including three lawmakers, had tested positive for COVID-19.

The health workers, who arrived with COVID-19 testing kits, collected samples of all the aides of the lawmakers who were around and the Assembly workers who were suspected to have been exposed to persons who had tested positive for the virus.

Our correspondent observed that the offices of the three lawmakers who are said to be carriers of the virus were under lock and keys. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Nelson Ezerioha, did not pick several calls put across to his mobile phone.

Source: Punch

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