Lagos State government has given the names of two individuals that had contact with the Italian index case of coronavirus.
The government has been in search of the two persons had contacts with the index case as it primes efforts ensuring the containment of the spread of the disease.
The Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Professor Akin Abayomi, while giving an update on the new case of the virus recorded in the country, gave the names of the fleeing male persons as Enwelunta Godfrey and Salami Abiodun Sodiq.
The two persons were in the same flight with the Italian who tested positive to the coronavirus disease after arriving Nigeria from his country.
Abayomi urged the media to be of assistance in locating the two men which is a necessary step to ensuring that Nigeria is on top of the coronavirus development.
He said the Federal and State Ministries of Health were looking for the two individuals who were on the same flight with the Italian.
According to him, the state decided to make the names public due to the government’s inability to trace them based on the contact information they gave when boarding the plane.
This comes after the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, announced the second case of coronavirus while briefing reporters in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
He noted that the newly confirmed case was a contact of the index case and not an importation into the country.
Ehanire explained that the government has adopted some important response strategies at the containment stage which included identifying all contacts and ensuring their strict isolation among others.
He disclosed that it was in the process that the second case of the virus was detected.
Nigeria’s form approach to the containment of the disease is said to be a result of the experience gained from the equally deadly Ebola outbreak of 2014, which Nigeria was able effectively control from spreading deepily among the populace.
