The Nation reports that the state’s commissioner for health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said the two men were identified within 24 hours after their names were made public.
GIOTV learns that the commissioner made the disclosure on Wednesday, March 11. The two men, identified as Salami Abiodun Sadeeq and Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey, boarded the same flight with the Italian who tested positive to coronavirus in Lagos.
Lagos health commissioner, Akin Abayomi, said the two Nigerians declared wanted over coronavirus have been found. Credit: ProfAkinAbayomi Source: Twitter They were declared unreachable on Monday, March 9, after all the efforts by the state government to trace them failed. Abayomi said the Italian and the second index case are doing very well.
Earlier, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed another fresh case of coronavirus in Nigeria, bringing the number of established cases to two since the outbreak of the life-threatening infection in the country. The health ministry made the confirmation on Monday morning, March 9, in a statement on the verified Twitter page of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Earlier, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed another fresh case of coronavirus in Nigeria, bringing the number of established cases to two since the outbreak of the life-threatening infection in the country. The health ministry made the confirmation on Monday morning, March 9, in a statement on the verified Twitter page of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
According to the ministry, the second case is a “contact of the index case” in Ogun state which was confirmed after testing positive to the virus from quarantine centre. “This second case is a contact of the index case, in Ogun state. The new case has been in isolation and was tested as part of our strategy to test all contacts of the index case,” the statement read.
GIOTV recalls the first case of the epidemic was recorded in Nigeria after an Italian national arrived Lagos with the virus. In a statement released by the health ministry on Thursday, February 27, the Italian, who worked as a consultant at Lafarge PLC arrived Lagos from Milan and tested positive to the deadly disease. People who had contact with him were afterwards quarantined as part of measures to put the spread under control. In another report, President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Nigeria’s oil revenue was being affected by the outbreak of coronavirus. The Nigerian president made the disclosure when members of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly Healthcare Professionals Associations (AHPA) visited him at the presidential villa, on Tuesday, March 10.
A statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, stated that Buhari during the visit pleaded with the health workers to be patient with his administration to address their demands regarding the adjustment of consolidated health salary structure (CONHESS) among other demands. Also, amid fear of global recession following the fall in the price of petroleum, Mele Kyari, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s general managing director, has warned against beckoning tough times. Kyari gave the warning on Tuesday, March 10, during the ongoing consultative roundtable themed ‘Going for Growth’ organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Abuja. The NNPC boss in his key address described the collapse of oil price at the global market as a bad omen for the oil-producing states in which Nigeria also belongs.