The second confirmed coronavirus case in Nigeria has now
tested negative.
Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, broke the news in Abuja
on Friday.
With this development, 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 index case — an Italian — is making good
progress and should be released from hospital next week.
Ehanire had on Monday announced that the second case of
coronavirus in Nigeria.
The patient was reported to have had “close contact” with
the Italian man.
“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,” he had said.
“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.”
Nigeria’s index case of coronavirus flew into the country
from Milan, which has the highest record of the disease in Europe, on February
24.
A total of 39 people who were reported to have had contact
with him were quarantined while the federal government commenced the search for
those who were aboard the Turkish Airline flight that brought him to the
country.
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