Coronavirus: We Were Given False Information – Lagos Commissioner

Coronavirus: We Were Given False Information – Lagos Commissioner

Professor Akin Abayomi, the Commissioner for Health in Lagos State,
has disclosed that some of those who boarded the same flight with the
Italian coronavirus patient have not been quarantined as they gave out
false information.

He revealed that the incident command centre has identified some of
those who had contact with the index case of coronavirus in Nigeria and
still investigating possible transmission of the virus.

Abayomi said; “There were 159 passengers in the aircraft and six
people that came in contact with him at the airport. There are 25 people
who came in contact with him at the factory; there were two drivers and
an ambulance driver.

“We have quarantined those identified so far at our medical
facilities and some of them at home. We are calling them twice a day to
check if they are okay. If they develop symptoms, we will bring them to
our bio-security facility for tests.

“We have identified all of these people except some of the people on
the aircraft who have either gone back to Europe and other states. Some
of them gave us false information on the phone.

“We are still trying to find the remaining passengers on that aircraft every day. Our contact list is over 100 persons and this number is increasing every day.”

Source:- Todayng