WASSCE: All COVID-19 Positive Students Test Negative

Students who tested positive for Coronavirus during the ongoing 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination have been discharged.

The development was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, on Monday.

Nwajiuba who announced this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said the students have returned to classes after treatment.

According to him, all the students have tested negative.

“We have confirmed that all of them are back to class. They have all been discharged. We do not have any further cases.”

“There were four in Gombe, there was one in Kwara and there were few in Bayelsa, but those of them have been discharged as they all tested negative.”

Nwajiuba added that the Buhari-led government is still getting feedback from the field.