Akin Abayomi, Lagos state commissioner of health, has
advised passengers who came into Nigeria through the British Airways flight 75
on March 13 to stay at home and isolate themselves for 14 days.
Nigeria confirmed its third case of coronavirus (COVID-19)
earlier in the day.
The patient, a 30-year-old Nigerian lady, returned from the
United Kingdom on March 13 and was said to have come through the British
Airways flight.
“Breaking! #COVID19Lagos Updates If you are a passenger on
flight BA 75 that arrived in Lagos on 13th March 2020, stay at home and isolate
yourself for 14 days. Call @LSMOH,” Abayomi said in a tweet.
“Hotlines now; 08000corona, 08023169485, 08033565529,
08052817243, 08028971864, 08059758886, 08035387653.”
Breaking! #COVID19Lagos Updates— Prof. Akin Abayomi (@ProfAkinAbayomi) March 17, 2020
If you are a passenger on flight BA 75 that arrived in Lagos on 13th March, 2020, stay at home and isolate yourself for 14 days.
Call @LSMOH hotlines now; 08000corona, 08023169485,
08033565529,
08052817243, 08028971864, 08059758886, 08035387653 pic.twitter.com/TIzkV3z0U0
Abayomi said the patient has been moved from her home to the
Infectious Disease Centre in Yaba area of the state, and that she is responding
to treatment.
He said contact-tracing of all passengers and those who may
have come in contact with the new case has commenced.
The commissioner also said there are three new suspected
cases whose samples have been taken for tests.
“Right now we have three suspected cases in the facility.
They have arrived yesterday in the evening and we are monitoring them,” he
said.
“There is a Nigerian traveller from the US who returned to
Lagos. He has been well up until yesterday when he developed some symptoms of
high fever and body pains and because of his travel history, we thought it was
important that we bring him into the Yaba hospital where we can monitor him for
his clinical features and then run the test.
“We admitted him last night, he is doing relatively well. We
have taken his samples this morning and we will know the results today.
“We have another traveller from the UK who came from UK on
the 12th of this month. He has been well but he developed some symptoms but we
went to identify him and we have taken his sample and we will run that test
today. We have not admitted him because he has been complying with our
isolation instructions and we will run his test today and give the results out
to him as soon as it is ready.
“We have another traveller who came in from India through
Cairo. He developed a high fever two days ago. We decided that, although there
is no intensive transmission in the India continent because he transitted
through Cairo where we know there a number of cases now.
“We decided that we would contain him at the facility, run
his test because his fever was quite high and he is coughing. So it is possible
he fits the definition we are looking for but we cannot confirm that until we
get the result.”
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