Lagos govt quarantines Chinese over suspected coronavirus

Lagos State government on Tuesday quarantined and tested a Chinese man who arrived in the country via an Ethiopian Airline plane for suspected coronavirus.

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this, said the Chinese had been moved to the Lagos State Isolation Centre for the novel coronavirus test.

In the same vein, the Ogun State government said the state recorded two suspected cases of coronavirus in the last 48 hours.

However, the two persons in question tested negative for the disease.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, disclosed this while leading the World Health Organisation (WHO), Africa Regional Office and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) team on a working visit to the Office of the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, in Abeokuta.

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She said: “We have had two cases over the weekend that had proven negative, and we have also had to investigate more in the last 48 hours. But they turned out to be negative cases.”

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