Coronavirus: 28 quarantined amid anxiety in Lagos, Ogun

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A factory located in the Ewekoro community in the state, which the unnamed Italian visited, has been shut down with government intensifying effort to locate others who had met with him.

He said officials of the Federal Ministry of Health were already in the state to assist in ensuring that the situation does not get out of control. “We are working to find out where this gentleman was, where he sat, those who sat around him and set up a monitoring team for all the passengers and crew members of that flight in order to get information and monitor their state of health.The minister said the Italian showed no symptom of Coronavirus when he arrived the Murtala Muhammed Airport only for him to fall sick a day or two later.

“And advise them in the interest of their own family and friends to stay in self isolation for 14 days and report any symptoms immediately. We also call you to find out how you are.” Besides, he said anyone who has a fever, cough or difficulty in breathing should see a doctor immediately.Sanwo-Olu: no cause for alarm

“Our bio-security facilities have been fortified to continue any form of test and contain any other potential case. The incident, he said, prompted the government to immediately trigger advanced end-to-end screening for passengers flying into Nigeria, especially from high-risk countries. “As we have said, this isolated case has been contained right from the hospital where he was first admitted and the guest house he slept after his arrival in Nigeria.

“We immediately asked them to transfer the case to Lagos. The patient was brought to our high-containment in Yaba on Thursday morning. Prof. Abayomi said more capabilities were being put in place by the state to deal with increase number of cases. “The doctors were smart enough to say this is somebody that is just coming in from Italy and fell ill suddenly. So we sent an ambulance there with the pep jackets and they brought him in for a diagnosis.

According to her, before arriving in the state, he had made contacts with three people in the night in Lagos State and arrived on Tuesday morning in Ogun State. “The epidemiologists in the state being supported by federal and Lagos are trying to get every contact the patient had.

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