"About 40 Health Workers Tested Positive For COVID-19" - Ehanire
Minister of health, Osagie Ehanire has appealed to medical workers in the frontline of the COVID-19 fight to always protect themselves while giving treatment to infected patients.
Joy Kalu 
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says about 40 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.
Dr Ehanire disclosed this on Thursday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
He appealed to medical workers in the frontline of the COVID-19 fight to always protect themselves while giving treatment to infected patients.
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Ehanire stated "Forty health workers in Nigeria have tested positive to COVID-19."
“We advise medical workers in the frontline of the COVID-19 fight to protect themselves carefully while giving treatment to infected patients."
Meanwhile, Nigeria on Thursday confirmed 108 cases of Coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 981 in the country.
