The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) says state governors have initiated surveillance and emergency responses in all states to tackle coronavirus
says state governors have initiated surveillance and emergency responses in all states to tackle an outbreak of coronavirus in the country.
On Friday, Nigerians woke up to the news that an unidentified Italian businessman who tested positive for the virus at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital , Idi-Araba, had been taken to the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba. Coronavirus, officially named COVID-19, broke out in Wuhan in Hubei province of China in December last year.
The case, which is the first reported in Sub-Saharan Africa, is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and journeyed from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria through Istanbul, Turkey on the 25th of February 2020 and is said to have spent some time in Ogun state. In response to the first case reported, the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Health and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control , has already activated its National Emergency Operations Centre and is working closely with Lagos State Ministry of Health to respond to this case and implement firm control measures to prevent further widespread.
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