Obafemi Hamzat
Obafemi Hamzat, the Deputy governor of Lagos state, was on TVC this
morning where he revealed that the Italian man diagnosed with the first
case of Coronavirus in Nigeria, went to Ewekoro in Ogun state before he
fell ill and was brought to Lagos where he was diagnosed with the virus.
“This young man came in from Italy, Milan. He came in on the 25th.
He has a consultancy job with a company in Ogun state. He landed on the
26th, went to Ewkoro and then he fell ill and the doctors were smart
enough to say this is somebody that is coming from Italy that has just
suddenly fell ill. So they took him in. So we sent an ambulance there
with a pep jacket. So they brought him in and then he was diagonised.
“The good thing is that he was brought in yesterday morning. Within four
hours, he was diagnosed. Our diagonistic tool seemed to work better
than we expected. Normally it takes about 8 hours but within four hours,
we were able to determine. So he is our biosecurity lab in Yaba. It is a
lab that we built that can accomodate 100 for now but it is only one
bed that is occupied today. Hopefully it wouldn’t spread. So we are
ready. We are well equipped.
“He is there and he is getting better. The challenge is not for people
to have the virus. If you don’t know, that is the challenge. In this
case, it is known that he has it. He is going to be okay. He is steady.
The doctors say he is going to be fine.
“What we are doing now is that he came in through one airline, so we are
tring to track everybody on that flight. He went from Lagos to Ewekoro.
Who has he met? What has happened? Those are the people that we are
tracking, isolate them and then check.’‘ he said
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