Nasarawa State Government has confirmed its index case of coronavirus.

Governor Abdullahi Sule made the confirmation on Tuesday during a security meeting at Government House, Lafia.

Sule said, “It is sad for me to announce that Nasarawa has a first case of COVID 19. We have already isolated her family so that we can conduct a proper test to ensure that none of the other members of her family is infected.

“For the first time we have a lady tested in Kokona and she is positive. The lady travelled from Kano to the Kokona Local Government Area and she was tested and after the test it came out that she was positive

“But the sad part about this lady is that when we discovered there was somebody that could be infected from Kano and we tried to conduct the test, the family tried to hide her away from being tested.”