“We are worried that we may have explosion of cases of coronavirus in our country.”
has been identified as one of the 13 countries in Africa at a high risk of being overwhelmed by the virus due to weak health sector.
Although the viral load of the 44-year-old Italian citizen is reducing, he would not yet be discharged from the Infectious Disease Hospital Yaba, Lagos, as he was not yet totally free from the virus. They said contrary to some media reports, the Italian was visiting Nigeria for the first time as a consultant to a company in Ogun State, just as it was learnt that the Italian’s wife and brother have also tested positive to the virus in Italy.
Braka said the WHO declaration that COVID-19 was now a pandemic meant that all countries, especially those at high risk such as Nigeria needed to redouble their efforts to prevent a situation where they would be overwhelmed by the virus.
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