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Coronavirus: CMD Yaba explains why he didn’t wear mask around infected Italian [VIDEO]
Over the weekend, Dr Bowale and the state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi were criticised by Nigerians after a photo of them speaking to the Italian man tested positive for CoVID 19 in the Isolation center surfaced without them wearing masks or any protective gadget.He said there was no need to wear a mask when there is a reasonable distance between the patient and himself.
“I am not using any facemask because the distance between me and where the patient is more than 2 meters so I can’t get infected. “It is only when I am going to move into the ward and move closer to the patient is when I am going to put on my full PPE. “Coronavirus is a respiratory infection, I and the commissioner of health were not close enough to the patient and therefore cannot contact the infection.Nigeria’s health minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday night confirmed the first case of Coronavirus https://dailypost.ng/2020/02/28/coronavirus-in-nigeria-federal-govt-confirms-full-statement/
The first case was recorded in an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy on the 25th of February, 2020.View this post on Instagram
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