The founder of DAAR Communication, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, and seven members of his family who tested positive for coronavirus have been moved to the isolation centre at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
His son, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, who had earlier tested positive had been at the facility receiving treatment.
The status of the founder of the communication outfit and his family members were announced on Friday on ait.live.
He was quoted as having said: “I am quite okay. I feel very well.”
Meanwhile, contact tracing was said to have begun.
Also, test for the disease had been extended to senior management members and staff of DAAR Communication who might have had contact with Dokpesi.
The headquarters of the company in Abuja had also been fumigated.