Some sources were insinuating that the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, had gone into self-isolation on Wednesday, after possibly having contact with the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.

Recall that Kyari tested positive to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Monday, March 23rd, 2020.

The health minister had travelled to Germany through Egypt on Saturday, March 7, 2020 and was accompanied on the trip by the Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulation Commission, Prof. James Momoh, and the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman.

He developed severe cough during a meeting on curtailing the spread of coronavirus in the country on Sunday, March 22nd, 2020.

On Monday, Ehanire presided over a press briefing in Abuja, where he provided an update on coronavirus.

But he was conspicuously absent when the medical supplies donated by Jack Ma Foundation were received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020.

The Ministry of Health’s Permanent Secretary, Abdullahi Mashi, received the medical items, on behalf of the Federal Government.

The regular Wednesday press conference on coronavirus (COVID-19) was not held.

Top ministry officials who were contacted by Flavision could not confirm to us if the minister was in self-isolation, but they confirmed his absence from office.

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