No fewer than 100 people had contacts with the Italian who is Nigeria’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) index case, the Lagos State government said on Sunday.
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Akin Abayomi, told Reuters: “It is around 100 people . He added that the number is increasing every minute.”
“The facility is first-class. Both local and international reporters, over 60 of them, were there to see the state of the infrastructure, which is comparable to any other facility we have in the country.” “We are going to meet with our brother governors and commissioners for health in the Southwest so as to compare notes, on efforts to control Coronavirus,” the governor said.
“We are hoping that all of these will get behind us very quickly since we have all the machinery to deal with it,” he added.The governor also lamented that some Nigerians were taking advantage of the Coronavirus outbreak to hike prices of preventive items like face masks and sanitizers. The Federal Government has extended screening at entry points to travellers from South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan. The countries have high number of coronavirus cases.
He explained that the four Chinese miners were screened at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on their arrival from China but the government still isolated them “It is not only the four Chinese that we had to isolate; all the people that had contacts with them on their return to Wase will be identified and isolated too.In Makurdi, the Benue State Government has set up a treatment centre at the state university teaching hospital and an Emergency Response Committee to monitor, supervise and coordinate its response to the disease.
They called for massive awareness campaigns to educate the general public on actions that could lead to contraction of the disease and the possible preventive measures. “People should be mindful of the information they circulate on the social media; False information that triggers panic should not be encouraged.“The media is a vital instrument at this time and it should not allow itself to be used to disseminate false information or information that may be adding ‘salt to the injury’.
The WHO Representative, therefore, urged the Federal Government to ensure the capacity to detect, treat, manage or even refer any case of the disease at any time. The Medical Director, MercyWay Medical Centre, Ejigbo Lagos, Dr Omogbohun Patrick, called for grassroot sensitisation of the general public on the symptoms of disease.
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