Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, a son of Nigeria’s former
vice-president, has now tested negative for coronavirus.
“I have just received my second consecutive negative result,” Mr
Atiku-Abubakar shared the news on his twitter on monday afternoon.
“My discharge is currently being processed, and I hope to be home
this evening.”
The Nigerian disease control office does not comment on
individual cases.
Mr Atiku-Abubakar was first confirmed to have contracted the
virus on March 19 and was subsequently transferred to an isolation
centre on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The 31-year-old, however, failed to test negative for the virus
until today, a 40-day ordeal that experts said could be amongst the
longest ever recorded in the country since the first infection was
confirmed in Lagos February 27.
Coronavirus, whose latest variant COVID-19 has killed hundreds
of thousands and sickened millions across the world, has an average
of 14 days to run its course after infection. Most Nigerians known
publicly to have contracted COVID-19 were treated and discharged by
the Nigerian disease control office within 14 days.
Why Mr Atiku-Abubakar took 40 days to recover from a disease
known to me mostly virulent amongst people above 65 remained
unclear, although some scientists estimated the virus could last as
long as 37 days in a human’s body.
Mohammed Atiku-Abubakar, a son of Nigeria’s former
vice-president, has now tested negative for coronavirus.
“I have just received my second consecutive negative result,” Mr
Atiku-Abubakar shared the news on his twitter on monday afternoon.
“My discharge is currently being processed, and I hope to be home
this evening.”
The Nigerian disease control office does not comment on
individual cases.
Mr Atiku-Abubakar was first confirmed to have contracted the
virus on March 19 and was subsequently transferred to an isolation
centre on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The 31-year-old, however, failed to test negative for the virus
until today, a 40-day ordeal that experts said could be amongst the
longest ever recorded in the country since the first infection was
confirmed in Lagos February 27.
Coronavirus, whose latest variant COVID-19 has killed hundreds
of thousands and sickened millions across the world, has an average
of 14 days to run its course after infection. Most Nigerians known
publicly to have contracted COVID-19 were treated and discharged by
the Nigerian disease control office within 14 days.
Why Mr Atiku-Abubakar took 40 days to recover from a disease
known to me mostly virulent amongst people above 65 remained
unclear, although some scientists estimated the virus could last as
long as 37 days in a human’s body.