The Bauchi State Government have begun the contact tracing of no fewer than 800 people after three persons returning from Kano and Abuja test for coronavirus.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 14 with eight being active cases in the state.

The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Rilwan Mohammed, confirmed this on Sunday.

He said one person had been discharged after testing negative to COVID-19.

He said that the results were sent to him from the National Center for Disease Control, Abuja at about 2.00pm on Sunday.

Mohammed said:

“Yes, we have three additional cases in the state. This brings to 14 the total number of cases in the state. The active cases are now eight.

“These new cases are fresh ones, they are not the contacts of any of the confirmed cases. Two of them are returnees from Kano state while the other one came into the state from Abuja.

“We also discharged one more person today which means we have discharged six people who tested negative.”

He said that contact tracing had begun pointing out that “just today, were able to trace 125 contacts.”

The Executive Chairman added that:

“We have 685 contacts on our line list that we are going to trace.”