At least 28 persons have been identified and quarantined in Ogun State after they came in contact with Nigeria’s first case of Coronavirus.
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, said those who were quarantined were those who had contacts with the Italian, who was the first person that tested positive to the coronavirus.
At a press conference on Friday, Governor Abiodun said the state government was leaving no stone unturned as items needed for health workers had been procured so that they can arrest the situation immediately.
According to him, the state is also tracing those who might have had contacts with the Italian, so as to isolate them, adding that “a contact-tracing exercise is ongoing.”
Abiodun spoke further that the company where the Italian visited had been shutdown, saying two isolation centres had been set up at the company.
The index case, an Italian, came into Nigeria on Monday aboard Turkish Airlines and went straight to Ewekoro, Ogun State, where he had contact with several Lafarge employees.
Following an exclusive report on the incident and how the Italian exposed several persons to danger in Lagos and Ogun, government has since shut down the cement factory in Ewekoro and quarantined several employees of Lafarge to avoid a spread of the deadly virus.