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Lagos reveals 4 new cases of coronavirus

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We cannot reveal name of Italian who brought Coronavirus to Nigeria —Lagos Commissioner

The Lagos State Government has announced that it has recorded four new cases of the deadly coronavirus also known COVID-19, – a disease which originated from Wuhan in China.

This was revealed on Thursday by the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, who said during a press conference that the emergence of the new cases brings the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 12.

According to Prof Abayomi, tests were conducted on 19 suspected cases from which the four new cases emerged.

Also in a post on Twitter, Tunde Ajayi, special assistant on health, Lagos State Government gave a breakdown on the four new cases via his twitter handle @thetundeajayi: “1). Contact of the third. 2.) Female Nigerian came into Lagos on 14th Mar Turkish TK1830. 3.) Nigerian male 50’s. Never travelled anywhere and he’s been admitted. 4.) Nigerian male, arrived 13/03 Lufthansa LH568.”

Meanwhile, the commissioner stated that the coronavirus has been cleared from the index case, an Italian, but the patient will undergo one more test before he can be discharged.

Read also: KATSINA: Suspected COVID-19 case tests negative

Speaking at the briefing, Abayomi said, “If you recall, we had four new cases yesterday (Wednesday). A mother and child who travelled from the US into Lagos, a gentleman that travelled to Lagos from London, and an American citizen that crossed the Nigeria/Benin border into Nigeria, all the four of them tested positive and have been admitted at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.

“They are all doing well under isolation. That was in addition to our index case, the Italian gentleman, the second case has tested negative and has returned to Ogun State, and the lady that travelled from the UK was our third case.

“The index case has now cleared the virus, we will check him one more time, if he is negative, he will be discharged.

“Yesterday (Wednesday), we performed 19 tests on suspected cases and contacts of the new cases that were admitted on Tuesday. Out of those 19 tests, we have four new positives.

“The first new positive is a contact of the third case that came from the UK, she has tested positive and will be admitted shortly. We have a new case, a female Nigerian, returning from France via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines TK 1830 on March 14.

“We have a third case – Nigerian male, in his 50s. He has never travelled anywhere and he presented symptoms, he was referred to us, we want to retrieve samples and it tested positive. He had since been admitted into our facility.

“The fourth case is a Nigerian male, he arrived on March 13 from Frankfurt via Lufthansa Flight no LH568. We are currently running more tests on suspected cases and contacts of our confirmed cases. It is clear that we have a combination of imported cases and local transmission.”

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