Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, a child of Nigeria’s former Vice president, has now tried negative for coronavirus, read more news here.
“I have just received my second consecutive negative result,” Mr Atiku-Abubakar said on Monday afternoon. “My discharge is currently being processed, and I hope to be home this evening.”
The Nigerian disease control office doesn’t comment on individual cases.
Mr Atiku-Abubakar was first confirmed to have gotten the infection on March 19 and was consequently moved to a isolation centre on the edges of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, click here to read more news.
The 31-year-old, in any case, neglected to test negative for the infection until today, a 40-day ordeal that experts said could be amongst the longest ever recorded in the country since the first infection was confirmed in Lagos February 27.
