Nigerian who tested positive for Coronavirus now negative

A Nigerian who tested positive for the dreaded Coronavirus has tested negative, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire said on Friday.

It would be recalled that health authorities in the country had announced that a Nigerian who was one of the contacts of the Italian who first tested positive to the virus, has turned out positive.

Indications had emerged on Thursday that the Nigerian may be on his way to recovery when the Lagos State Commissioner of Health Professor Akin Abayomi said that he was stable, as at when the result of a second test was being awaited to know his current status.

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