Two officers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have tested positive for COVID-19 in Makurdi, Benue State.
The State Governor, Samuel Ortom, made the announcement while giving new guidelines on the easing of restrictions in the state, on Wednesday.
The governor said contacts tracing has commenced immediately within and outside the NAF base to identify and isolate anyone who had contact with the officers.
Lifting of the ban on worship places which must not congregate for more than one hour, and the resumption of work by all civil servants with effect from Monday, June, were part of the new measures in the state.
Recall that the NAF recently produced emergency ventilators to ventilate patients with respiratory disease including acute lungs injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
The ventilators were unveiled last week at the Nigerian Airforce Institute of Technology in Kaduna State by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
