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Several members of the WHO Emergency Committee considered that it was too early to declare it PHEIC, given its restrictive and binary nature

The State Government through a press statement by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said Coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illness ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

The first case of a novel (new) coronavirus (2019nCoV) strain was confirmed in China on the 7th of January 2020.