The Commissioner for Education, Dr Habu Dahiru, on Wednesday said seven more students of the Government Girls Secondary School Doma, had tested positive to coronavirus, bringing the total number of students that tested positive to eight.
Dahiru spoke when he visited the student of the Government Science Secondary who had been taking his West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination from an isolation centre.
He said upon resumption of school the government conducted 1,100 tests on students.
“So far we have tested 1,100 students, out of which the first case is from Government Science Secondary School.
“We have identified another set of students; we only got the result yesterday. Seven of them have been found to be positive. We are making arrangements to evacuate them to the isolation centre.
“They will not miss their papers because they tested positive. The testing became easier because the governor approved 120m to establish a molecular laboratory.”
An SS3 student of the Government Science Secondary school Gombe, on Wednesday said, “At first we were afraid when we heard that some of us were positive but we were told Covid-19 is not a death sentence that we can recover from it. Fears of many reduced.”
