Obafemi Hamzat, deputy governor of Lagos state, says the
Italian diagnosed of coronavirus in Lagos works in Ewekoro, Ogun state.
This is contrary to the rumour making the round that the
patient works at Agip Saipem, an oil engineering company in Banana Island,
Lagos.
The Italian was confirmed to have the virus on Friday
morning — about two days after he arrived in the country.
He came in from Milan, Italy, the country with the highest
rate of the infection in Europe.
This message went viral on social media on Friday: “Agip
Saipem in Banana Island, Lagos, is on lock down. That is the office the Italian
with the Coronavirus went to when he returned to Nigeria. Folks need to note
information as this to take necessary precautions. Healthy and safe wishes to
all.”
But speaking on Your View, a programme on Television Continental (TVC), Hamzat said the patient works as a consultant in a company in Ewekoro.
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| Staff reported for work at Agip Saipem, Banana Island, on Friday… contrary to the WhatsApp broadcast |
He said the Italian visited Ewekoro from where doctors first
suspected he had the virus when he checked into a hospital.
”This young man came in from Italy, Milan, on the 25th. He
has a consultancy job with a company in Ogun state… so he landed on the 26….
went to Abeokuta, well, Ewekoro, and then he fell ill and the doctors were
smart enough to say this is someone coming in from Italy that just suddenly
took ill,” Hamzat said.
“So we sent an ambulance there with a pep jacket and they
brought him in and then he was diagnosed.”
He asked Lagosians to rest assured that the situation is
under control.
“The good thing is that he was brought in yesterday morning
and within four hours, he had been diagnosed, so our diagnosis tools seem to
work better than we expected. Normally, it takes eight hours,” he said.
”He is in our biosecurity lab in Yaba. It is a lab we built
that can accommodate 100 for now, but it is only one bed that is occupied
today. Hopefully, it won’t spread further. We are ready, we are well equipped
and he is getting better. The doctor said that he is going to be fine.
“The challenge is not for people to have the virus; if you
don’t know, that’s the challenge.
“What we are doing now is that he came through one airline
so we are trying to track everybody on that flight. He went from Lagos to
Ewekoro, who has he met? So, those are the people they are tracking to isolate
them and then carry out checks.”
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