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ABBA KYARI DIES FROM CORONAVIRUS, PLUS THE AILMENTS THAT COMPLICATED HIS SICKENESS ABBA KYARI DIES FROM CORONAVIRUS, PLUS THE AILMENTS THAT COMPLICATED HIS SICKENESS

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The Presidency announced the death of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari yesterday. The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19 and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020.

Mallam Abba Kyari was the most influential and powerful appointee in President Muhamadu Buhari’s cabinet until his death in Lagos, where he was isolating and receiving treatment for the deadly coronavirus and other underlying ailments.
Not many people knew Kyari was battling with a chronic type 2 diabetes that required him to seek care in London and Nigeria on a regular basis. He also had other health problems including hypertension.
The odds were indeed stacked against him. The pre-existing ailments and his age gave him a very small chance of survival.

 

Kyari is believed to have contracted the coronavirus during his official trip to Berlin, the German capital, alongside officials of the Power Ministry for meetings with Siemens AG senior executives in the second week of March 2020. Kyari also met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in private on that trip; Merkel would later become self-isolated from concerns that her doctor, who contracted the virus, may have contaminated her.

A few days after his return to Nigeria, Mr. Kyari, who did not self-isolate for two weeks as prescribed by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control guidelines, NCDC, started to exhibit coronavirus symptoms and was seriously coughing at high-profile meetings, including meetings attended by President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

 

He tested positive for the deadly virus on March 24, 2020. On March 29, Kyari publicly announced that in a personal statement to the public he had contracted the disease. “I am writing to let you know that I will be moving to Lagos later today for more testing and evaluation on medical advice. This is a precautionary measure: I feel fine, but I tested positive for coronavirus last week, the pandemic that is raging around the world. I have followed all the procedures that the government has declared to self-isolate and quarantine, “Kyari wrote, adding:” I expect to be
back on my desk soon. “Unfortunately, Mallam Abba Kyari will never return to his desk at the seat of power or to his family again.

 

Kyari is the only high-profile coronavirus death in Nigeria so far. According to data released by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, only seventeen people were reported dead from the virus nationwide as at Friday night, while 493 confirmed cases were identified. 159 Recovered individuals. Testing for COVID-19 has been very small in the country and the NCDC has been working to increase the testing capacity, which this week exceeded seven thousand daily capacity with a pledge to keep on-ramping.

There is insufficient information about Kyari’s birthday year and date, a Kanuri from Borno State. He is believed to have died in his 70s, though.
He received a Bachelor of Sociology from Warwick University in 1980 and later received another Bachelor of Law from Cambridge University. In 1983 he was called to the Bar of Nigeria. In 1984, he received his Master’s degree in Law from Cambridge University.

 

“Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly,” one of President Buhari’s spokesmen, Femi Adesina, said in the statement.
May his soul rest in peace!!!

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