Osagie Ehanire, the minister of health, has disclosed that two out of the three suspected cases of coronavirus have tested negative for the disease,
Osagie who made the disclosure at a news conference in Abuja on Friday, March 6, said the result of the third suspected case is still being awaited.
The minister, however, asked Nigerians to refrain from discriminating against foreign nationals over fears of the virus.
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Osagie also urged citizens to maintain good social distance. He said the authorities has already strengthened the screening of every passenger that enters the country.
Earlier, The Herald reported that Professor Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, has announced that three persons are suspected to have been infected with the novel coronavirus disease in Lagos state.
The commissioner who announced this on his Twitter page on Thursday said that the persons suspected to be infected by the disease have all been placed under isolation in an Infectious Disease Hospital by an undisclosed private hospital in Yaba and are patiently waiting for the test results to confirm the infection.
Abayomi wrote: “We now have three suspected cases under isolation in our containment facility in Yaba. One from France, one from England and one from China. Their samples have been taken and results are been expected.”
Meanwhile, the commissioner has also lamented that two out of the 15 people on board the Turkish Airline which brought in the Italian who was infected with coronavirus have refused to present themselves.
He appealed to them to show up in other to avoid the case of spreading the disease around the country.
Abayomi said: “Right now, we have 13 of those 15 persons we were yet to reach as of Wednesday, between that yesterday, (Wednesday) and today, 13 persons have shown up while we are still missing two people. Those gone outside Nigeria, we are using the WHO to find them. Of that number in Lagos, we are looking for two on that flight.