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The Lagos State Government has said the Chinese citizen who presented at the Reddington Hospital, Ikeja sick on Wednesday and suspected to have Coronavirus, codenamed Covid-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has tested negative to the disease.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Commissioner for Health of Lagos State, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who made this known through a press statement noted that the likelihood of Coronavirus infection in this particular patient was very low and that the conclusion of investigations and sophisticated testing confirms that there is no case of Covid-19 in Lagos as of now.
“I would like to reassure Lagosians that our vigilance levels are very high and we are putting more measures in place to safeguard the State,” Prof. Abayomi said.
While giving details of the investigation, the Lagos Health Commissioner explained that the Ministry of Health’s attention was drawn to the suspected Covid-19 case early enough.
“From our investigation, we gathered that a Chinese citizen who arrived in Nigeria from China 7 weeks ago presented at the Hospital yesterday complaining about fever.
“The hospital in keeping with the advisory we earlier issued, correctly maintained a high index of suspicion, isolated the patient and reported the case to Lagos State Ministry of Health.
“We took up the case, transferred the patient to the State Isolation Unit at the Mainland Hospital, which is our specialised infectious disease hospital. His blood samples were taken to the Virology laboratory for analysis and it came out negative,” the Commissioner said.
The test result of the blood samples of the Chinese national taken came out negative, dousing Coronavirus scare in the State.