Lagos State has declared two persons who had contact with the Italian Coronavirus patient wanted.
They are; Enwelunta Obumnore Godfrey and Salami Abiodun Sadeeq.
The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who made this known on Monday during a briefing, further said the suspects who had been in contact with the secondary case of coronavirus will begin a 14-day isolation process.
He explained further: “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.
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“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.”
Abayomi also disclosed that the government was still in search of the remaining two passengers who were on the Turkish Airlines flight with the Italian coronavirus patient and appealed to them to reach out to the ministry.
“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,” the Commissioner added.
