BEVERLY HILLS, March 09, (THEWILL) – Two males who had contact with the 44-year-old Italian infected by COVID-19 and have been unreachable have been asked to submit themselves to health authorities in Nigeria to be quarantined for 14-days.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi in a briefing Monday identified the persons as Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey and Salami Abiodun Sadeeq.
Enweluta and Salami were onboard the Turkish Airlines flight with the infected Italian.
“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,” he said.
Nigeria confirmed a second a case of COVID-19 Monday, tracing the patient to the Italian, the first case of the disease in the country.
“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.”
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