UPDATE ON LASSA INDEX CASE BROUGHT TO LAGOS BY A STUDENT FROM EBONYI STATE

19/02/2020

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DANIELS G. O

THE INDEX LASSA FEVER CASE RECORDED IN LAGOS WAS BROUGHT INN BY A STUDENT FROM EBONYI STATE AND NOW RECEIVING TREATMENT IN ISOLATION AT THE LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL LUTH.

SPEAKING DURING A PRESS BRIEFING WITH NEWS MEN AT ABOUT 5.30PM ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, THE LAGOS STATE COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH PROFESSOR AKIN ABAYOMI SAID THEY HAVE ALREADY STARTED THE CONTACT TRACING OF THE PATIENT TO AVOID THE DISEASE SPREAD.

ABAYOMI NOTED THAT WITH A ROBUST BIOSECURITY STRATEGY AND BIO LEVEL THREE LABORATORY IN PLACE TO MONITOR ALL THAT IS GOING ON WITHIN THE STATE, ALL WAS SET TO MANAGE THE OUTBREAK OF ANY INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

ACCORDING TO THE COMMISSIONER, THE CASE RECORDED IN LAGOS NOW BRINGS TO 472 CASES,72 DEATHS INVOLVING 26 STATES IN NIGERIA

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