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Lagos govt unveils identities of passengers on same flight with coronavirus index case

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

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Monday, released the names of two men who are currently wanted over their contact with Nigeria’s index coronavirus case.

Nigeria recorded its first case of coronavirus about two weeks ago after a 44-year-old Italian tested positive for the disease.

Abayomi, who addressed journalists in Alausa, Ikeja, gave the names of the duo as Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey and Salami Abiodun Sadeeq.

He also said those that had been in contact with the secondary case of coronavirus would begin a 14-day isolation process.

The secondary case of coronavirus was the individual who had direct contact with the Italian, who is currently quarantined at the infectious disease facility at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba, Lagos State.

Abayomi said: “The secondary COVID-19 patient has had contact with a few people and those contacts will begin a 14-day isolation process.

“As per our protocol, we have the capacity to test so that we can pick up whether any of those in isolation are turning positive and we have tested the 40 individuals in isolation in Ewekoro at the Lafarge factory because that was the group that had close contact with the index case.

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“Out of the 40, we detected one positive and that individual happened to have spent a lot of time with the index case by virtue of his job.

“That demonstrates the first transmission for the index case and the good news is that we have the individual under surveillance so that significantly minimises the chance of transmission to a large number of people.”

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