President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly tested negative of the Coronavirus Disease despite claims his Chief of Staff (COS) Abba Kyari was diagnosed with the COVID-19 on Monday.
Buhari was said to have subjected himself to be screened after the result of Kyari’s test conducted Sunday came in positive on Monday.
It was gathered that Kyari who’s also a close relative of the President, had developed a severe cough, one of the symptoms of the COVID-19 which exhibited during a meeting on containing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria all through Sunday.
According to reports, Kyari travelled to Germany through Egypt on Saturday, March 7 to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme and returned with no symptoms.
Executive Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Prof James Momoh reportedly accompanied Kyari on the trip to both countries.
According to statistics, Germany has 29,056 infections and 123 deaths while Egypt has recorded 14 fatalities from 327 cases.