An employee of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and his wife are currently in self-isolation following a foreign trip.
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But neither of them has tested positive for coronavirus as speculated on Saturday on social media, according to the Director, Communications and Liaison Department of FIRS, Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad.
He said in a statement on Saturday that the unidentified staff of the service who went to pick his wife from the airport “is currently and voluntarily observing the federal government advisory of self-isolation alongside his spouse at the couple’s home since Monday.”
Both husband and wife he noted “have not visited any FIRS offices or events since the wife returned to Nigeria last Sunday.”
“More importantly, both husband and wife have only been in self-isolation for five days and have NOT tested positive to Covid-19” he said.
He stated that before now, “all FIRS offices have taken necessary precautions to protect both Staff and our esteemed taxpayers from Covid-19 through.”
Some of the precautionary measures include “social distancing, temperature testing, disabling of the biometric sign in, and provision of hand sanitizers for staff and visitors to our offices nationwide as advised by the Federal Ministry of Health.”
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