The Federal Ministry of Health has on Thursday confirmed the first case of coronavirus in Lagos.
Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanrie, confirmed this in a press statement obtained by The Informant247, he disclosed that “The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020.”
He added that the patient is clinically stable with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.
Prior to the case in Nigeria, just two cases had surfaced across all of Africa – in Egypt and in Algeria – a tally that had puzzled heath specialist, given the continent’s close economic ties with China.
The World Health Organization warned earlier this week that African health system were ill-equiped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak should cases start to proliferate on the continent.
Attached is the full Statement has obtained by The Informant247: