Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, during a live update on the case of coronavirus in Nigeria on Friday, disclosed that the second case of the virus in Nigeria tested negative.
This means that Nigeria now has only one confirmed case of coronavirus who is currently being treated at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.
He said the first case which is an Italian man is making good progress and is expected to be released from the hospital next week.
He said: “The newly confirmed case is an Ogun state contact of the index case but he has no significant clinical symptoms. This brings the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria to two,
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“Following recent experiences from other countries and evidence from newly published studies of known symptomatic infections, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) advised that samples be taken from all contacts of the index case for testing. It is in this process that this new case was detected.”
According to the Cable, A total of 39 people who were reported to have had contact with the Italian man were quarantined while the federal government commenced the search for those who were aboard the Turkish Airline flight that brought him to the country.