The Lagos State Ministry of Health has released the names of
two men who are currently wanted because they were among the persons who had
primary contact with Nigeria’s index coronavirus case.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi,
gave their names as Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey (Male); and Salami Abiodun
Sadeeq (Male).
The commissioner also said those who had been in contact
with the secondary case of coronavirus will begin a 14-day isolation process,
HealthWise reports.
The secondary case of coronavirus was the individual who had
direct contact with Nigeria’s index coronavirus case — a 44-year-old Italian
male who is currently quarantined at the Mainland Hospital, an infectious
disease facility in Yaba, Lagos State.
The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed
this at a press briefing on Monday at Alausa.
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.
“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.”
The commissioner also said the government was still in
search of the remaining two passengers aboard the Turkish Airlines with the
Italian coronavirus patient.
He appealed to the two individuals to reach out to the
ministry.
“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.”
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