The Deputy governor of Lagos state, Obafemi Hamzat, 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 Ewekoro
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 diagnosed.
The good thing is that he was brought in yesterday morning.
Within four hours, he was diagnosed. Our diagnostic 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 accommodate 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 trying 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
