Coronavirus: Man who has not travelled out of Nigeria among new Lagos cases

A man in his 50s who has not travelled out of Nigeria before is among the four new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases confirmed in Lagos on Thursday.
This was disclosed by the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who also revealed that another newly confirmed case was a woman who had contact with the third confirmed case in the state who returned from a summit in the United Kingdom attended by Idris Elba and Sophie, wife of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
Abayomi, who gave an update on the disease when he briefed newsmen, said the third new case was a female who returned from France on March 14 on Turkish Airline flight TK 1830, adding that the fourth new case was a Nigerian male who arrived in the country on March 13 from Frankfurt on Lufthansa Airline flight LH568.
He said the four were the ones who tested positive out of 19 tested at the Infectious Disease Centre in Yaba, Lagos.
He said: “We have a combination of imported cases and local transmission.
“The Executive of Lagos State is meeting on the next stage of social distancing.
“The best way to slow the rate is to halt the movement of the virus from person to person.
“Currently, we are following over 1,300 people right now to find information about the state of their health and the number is increasing.”