FCT Minister tests positive for COVID-19  

Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has tested positive to COVID-19. 

The Minister, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Anthony Ogunleye, experienced some mild symptoms of sore throat, feverish feeling and mild running nose from 28th December and went for a COVID-19 test. The result returned positive in the early hours of Friday, December 31, 2021.

“The Minister who remains in high spirits, is isolating and receiving treatment at home and is currently doing fine,” the statement, which did not state whether what the Minister has is the Omicron or Delta variants said. 

It said further that Malam Bello’s case is mild, according to the medical personnel attending to him, “because he has taken two shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.”  

The Minister, “while appealing to those who are yet to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to do so, commended all medical personnel in the FCT and beyond for their front-line role in the containment of the virus.”

The statement did not say whether there has been contact tracing or whether the people the Minister had been in contact with lately have been tested or advised to quarantine themselves.

There were reports recently of some senior aides of President Muhammadu Buhari testing positive to COVID-19.

31/12/2021