Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, on Saturday disclosed that he infected four persons with coronavirus.
The governor made the disclosure at an annual event of the Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos, The Platform.
He was a guest speaker at the occasion
El-Rufai said the four persons had since recovered and back to their normal lives like him.
His words: “Each and every case of COVID-19 we’ve had in the state was imported. I was the index case, fortunately, I would say, because it served to scare everyone in the state to come to the reality that COVID-19 is real; it’s not a joke.
“I got it in Abuja and I infected four other people. Happily, all of us are okay now. We are all back to our normal lives. We didn’t want to expose any of our frontline workers to any risk, so we have a lot of PPEs for all our health workers.”
The governor spoke about how well the health workers in the state were cherished, stating that their lives had been insured.
“We also insured their (health workers) lives to the tune of N5 million. Anyone that dies in this process, his family will get N5 million and we have an additional disability insurance for those that get sick and cannot walk but are not dead.
“We are also giving a special allowance to all health workers, as well as extraordinary allowances for those on the frontlines. This is the broad strategy that we’ve adopted in Kaduna State and we are implementing it with all energy and focus.”
It would be recalled that the governor who tested positive on March 28 recovered about four weeks after.
El-Rufai made his recovery known on his Twitter handle on April 22.
His tweet read: “I am delighted to report today, that after nearly four weeks of observing a strict medical regime, I have now received the all-clear after two consecutive negative test results.”
El-Rufai is one of the three governors that tested positive for coronavirus and recovered.
Others are Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State.
