A six-year-old girl has tested positive for COVID-19 in Kazaure Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
The state’s Commissioner of Health and Chairman of the Task Force on COVID-19 in Jigawa State, Dr. Abba Zakari confirmed this on Tuesday.
He said the girl’s father is the index case in Kazaure and was confirmed to be positive upon his arrival from Enugu State.
According to Zakari, out of 18 samples collected in the contact tracing of the Kazaure index case, only the little girl’s sample returned positive.
He said the girl will soon be evacuated to the isolation centre in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital where her father is.