VICE PRESIDENT HUSSEIN ABDELBAGI TESTED POSITIVE WITH CORONAVIRUS
Juba 28 May 2020: As cases of the COVID-19 surges, the head of the new Coronavirus High-Level Task Force, one of the five South Sudan’s Vice Presidents, Gen. Hussein Abdelbagi tested positive with coronavirus.
Gen. Hussein Abdelbagi who assumed the head of COVID-19 High-Level Task Force from Dr. Riek Machar after Machar and his wife tested positive has become the fourth senior government officials tested positive with coronavirus, the first three are Dr. Machar, First Vice President, Hon Angelina Teny, Minister of Defense and Michael Makuei Lueth, Minister of information.
On Wednesday, 27 May, general Abdelbagi extent a written statement read on state owed SSBC, Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi said he would quarantine himself within his residence in capital Juba for the next 14 days and he will work from home, the statement further said the vice president is healthy and stable, he will be tested again after 14 days as per the guideline issued by the ministry of health.
Gen Hussein urged South Sudanese to strictly adhere to the guideline set by the Ministry of health and observe them strictly to combat the spread of the virus.
Mr. Abdelbagi asked citizens to embark on regular hand handing with soap, wearing of face masks, and social distancing.
South Sudan has confirmed 994 cases of infection with ten death, this was according to the High-Level Task Force report released on Wednesday. The new cases place South Sudan second place within the region after Kenya with 1618 confirmed cases of infection and 55 death.
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Please read the message of Hon Hussein Abdelbagi he posted after he announced he has tested positive with COVID-19
Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. For that matter, I have this evening publicly announced to have contracted the virus after the National laboratory returned 4 positive results including myself and 3 supporting staff. I immensely welcome the laboratory report. Doing this accounts for the love I have for my family and the people of South Sudan as I happened to know my health status. Consequently, the Pandemic is within the community and it makes a good point for everyone to know their status to help in containing the virus.
Last week, I ordered mandatory testing on members of the National taskforce as a way of encouraging the public to test for the virus; this was done in high spirit and it should continue. So, I take a quick turn to quarantine myself as I shall only be discharging my duties from home through videoconferencing.
Conclusively, I am pleading with everyone to show some discipline in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic by keeping observing the rules of physical distancing and wearing face masks in public. Remember, in the process of resolving the problem, a spirit of ignorance doesn't yield a positive outcome in any way rather than exacerbating the problem. However, be responsive and obedient in life and have a healthy life.
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