19/03/20

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DANIELS G. O

PRESS RELEASE

The Italian national who brought the deadly Coronavirus to Nigeria has now tested negative to the disease.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Thursday at a news conference to give update on the pandemic.

He said the index case, who had been receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, had tested negative to the disease.

Abayomi said it was good news for Lagos and Nigeria for the index case to test negative.

He said he would not be allowed to go yet until a confirmatory test had been carried out within 48 hours, saying that if he tested negative the second time, he would be discharged.

The Italian was tested negative for Coronavirus on Thursday 27, February, 2020.

The patient entered Nigeria on the 25th of February from Milan, Italy for a brief business visit to LaFarge.

According to Abayomi, “He fell ill on the 26th February and was transferred to Lagos State Biosecurity Facilities for isolation and testing. COVID-19 infection was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.”

The Italian had gone to LaFarge, where he had contacts with staff of the company. Forty people were later quarantined at LaFarge, out of which one tested positive for Coronavirus.

The second case who was infected by the Italian tested negative few days after he was quarantined.

However, Abayomi said all new cases were responding to treatment at the IDH in Yaba, Lagos.

The Italian national who brought the deadly Coronavirus to Nigeria has now tested negative to the disease.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Thursday at a news conference to give update on the pandemic.

He said the index case, who had been receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, had tested negative to the disease.

Abayomi said it was good news for Lagos and Nigeria for the index case to test negative.

He said he would not be allowed to go yet until a confirmatory test had been carried out within 48 hours, saying that if he tested negative the second time, he would be discharged.

The Italian was tested negative for Coronavirus on Thursday 27, February, 2020.

The patient entered Nigeria on the 25th of February from Milan, Italy for a brief business visit to LaFarge.

According to Abayomi, “He fell ill on the 26th February and was transferred to Lagos State Biosecurity Facilities for isolation and testing. COVID-19 infection was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.”

The Italian had gone to LaFarge, where he had contacts with staff of the company. Forty people were later quarantined at LaFarge, out of which one tested positive for Coronavirus.

The second case who was infected by the Italian tested negative few days after he was quarantined.

However, Abayomi said all new cases were responding to treatment at the IDH in Yaba, Lagos.

19/03/20

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DANIELS GO

The Lagos Commissioner for health has confirmed four more cases, now bringing to a total of eleven cases to be confirmed in Lagos and a total of twelve for NIGERIA

The Lagos State Government on Thursday confirmed this at a news briefing .

Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this on Thursday, saying that the government was currently following up over 1,300 contact cases.

Abayomi disclosed that 19 people were tested for Coronavirus on Wednesday in Lagos and that four out of them had tested positive to the virus and had been isolated for treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

He said the first of the four new cases who tested positive to the disease was a woman who had contact with the woman who came from UK some days ago who was tested positive.

According to him, the second new case was a female who returned from France on 14th of March on a Turkish airline TK 1830.

The third case, he said, was a Nigerian male in his 50s who had not travelled anywhere, but was tested positive to the disease.

Abayomi stated that the fourth new case was a Nigerian male who arrived the country on 13th of March from Frankfurt to Lagos on Lufthansa airline, flight number LH568.

The commissioner, however, said more tests were still being carried out, saying that it was clear that “we have combination of imported cases and local transmission.

He appealed to people on the two flights to self-isolate themselves and to reach the government.

18/03/20

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DANIELS G.O

BREAKING NEWS

Information just reaching us now says five news cases of covid- 19 have been recorded in Nigeria, bringing total cases to Eight so far.

Four out of the additional cases are recorded in Lagos state, while one is from Ekiti State

The Situation was Confirmed by the Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire on Wednesday at a press briefing in Abuja,and the Lagos state commissioner for health.

The affected persons are said to have had a travel history to the U.S And the United Kingdom.

Two out of the five new cases are said to be Nigerians ,a mother and a baby of six weeks old,while one is an American who came in through the Nigeria Benin land Border.

While the mother and child are now at the Yaba Hospital for treatment,the process of Admission is said to be under way for the American.

The Commissioner has however urged people not to panic, but to be sober and adhere strictly to any instruction given by Government and health officials.

Meanwhile contact tracing has started for the new cases, while some activities by the ministry of health have been cancelled for public interest.

The Index Case is still on admission while family members of the third case have been quarantined

18/03/20

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DANIELS G.O

The Katsina State Ministry of Health, says it has recorded a first suspected case of COVID- 19

Speaking with news men the permanent secretary of the ministry, Kabir Mustapha noted that the patient who is presently on self-isolation came from Malaysia and developed symptoms that has necessitated further investigations.

The result of the blood samples test is expected to be out by Tomorrow Thursday 19th March 2020.

Mustapha said the contact tracing will begin as soon as the result turns out positive.

More Details later

18/03/20

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DANIELS G.O

following the continued spread of covid-19 across the world,Nigerian government has joined the list of countries like the U.S to place a travel ban on countries where the virus is endemic.

They are as follows

(1)South Korea

(2)Spain

(3)China

(4)Japan

(5)Iran

(6)France

(7)Italy

(8)Norway

(9)United States Of America

(10)Germany

(11)Switzerland

(12)Netherlands And

(13)United Kingdom

All Nigerians have also been advised to practice the principle of social distancing in their daily activities to help reduce spread of the Virus

17/03/20

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DANIELS G.O

ANOTHER CASE OF COVID -19 HAS BEEN CORFIRMED BY THE LAGOS STATE MINISTRY OF HEALTH MAKING IT THE 3RD CASE TO BE CONFIRMED IN THE STATE SO FAR

THE PATIENT IS SAID TO BE A THIRTY YEAR OLD NIGERIAN WHO RETURNED TO THE COUNTRY FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM ON THE THIRTEENTH OF MARCH, SELF ISOLATED HERSELF AND DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS AND LATER TESTED POSITIVE.

SPEAKING DURING A PRESS BRIEFING ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN LAGOS ,THE COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH PROFESSOR AKIN ABAYOMI SAID SHE HAD BEEN MOVED TO THE ISOLATION CENTRE TWO AT YABA.

THE COMMISSIONER SAID THEY HAVE ALSO STARTED TRACING THE CONTACTS BEGINNING WITH HER IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND PEOPLE SHE BOARDED THE SAME FLIGHT WITH INTO THE COUNTRY.

THE NEW CASE WHICH BRINGS TO A TOTAL OF THREE CASES RECORDED SO FAR IN NIGERIA IS INDEPENDENT OF THE INDEX ITALIAN CASE.
ABAYOMI NOTED THAT SCHOOLS MAY SOON BE CLOSED TO PREVENT SPREAD OF THE VIRUS.