Coronavirus: Two Co-passengers Of Infected Italian Declared Wanted By Lagos Govt

The Lagos state ministry of well being has launched the names of two passengers on board the Turkish Airline flight which introduced the Italian who imported coronavirus into the nation, declaring them wished.

Akin Abayomi, the state commissioner for well being, gave their names as Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey and Salami Abiodun Sadeeq, throughout a press briefing on Monday.

He stated “Please we have to contact you and it’s worthwhile to be in contact with the ministry of well being. We have now been making an attempt to succeed in you by the tackle you place in your types and by the numbers however none of these numbers are working.

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“It’s vitally essential that you simply attain out to us with the numbers which can be usually accessible with the press -08023169485 or 08033565529 or 08052817243 or to the Federal Ministry of Well being or to the Nigeria Centre for Illness Management.

“I attraction to members of the general public who know or have any details about these 2 contacts to succeed in the ministry of well being by way of the State epidemiologist on +234 802 316 9485. This can be a matter of nationwide safety. We’d like your cooperation on this matter.”

The commissioner additionally stated those that had been involved with the secondary case of coronavirus will start a 14-day isolation course of.

“The secondary COVID-19 affected person has had contact with a couple of folks and people contacts will start a 14-day isolation course of,” he stated.

“As per our protocol, we now have the capability to check in order that we will choose up whether or not any of these in isolation are turning constructive and we now have examined the 40 people in isolation in Ewekoro on the Lafarge manufacturing facility as a result of that was the group that had shut contact with the index case.

“Out of the 40, we detected one constructive and that particular person occurred to have spent a number of time with the index case by advantage of his job.

“That demonstrates the primary transmission for the index case and the excellent news is that we now have the person beneath surveillance, in order that considerably minimises the possibility of transmission to numerous folks.”