The identifies of two passengers who were on board the flight with the Italian who brought in coronavirus into Nigeria have been released by the commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi on Monday.
The names of the two passengers who were also declared wanted by the state government for refusing to present themselves are Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey (Male); and Salami Abiodun Sadeeq (Male).
The commissioner who pleaded with the passengers to come forward and present themselves to the ministry said;
“Please we need to contact you and you need to be in touch with the Ministry of Health. We have been trying to reach you by the address you put on your forms and by the numbers but none of those numbers are working. it is vitally important that you reach out to us with the numbers that are generally available with the press -08023169485 or 08033565529 or 08052817243 or to the Federal Ministry of Health or to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.”
According to reports, those who have had contact with the secondary case of coronavirus will begin a 14-day isolation process.
While speaking at a press briefing in Alausa on Monday, Prof 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.”