The Jigawa State governor, Muhammed Abubakar has told newsmen that his state has recorded its first case of COVID-19

This is just as the government announced a lockdown in Kazaure Local Government to prevent the potential spread of the virus across the state.

Gov Abubakar explained that the case was a Lagos returnee and had been in self-isolation, but his test result came back positive.

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He said that the decision to lockdown Kazaure LG was to prevent the spread of COVID-19 across the state.

Abubakar urged the people of the state to be vigilant and alert local government COVID-19 task force on anybody who returned from other states.

Vanguard