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| Murtala Muhammed International Airport is an international airport, Lagos, Nigeria. PHOTO | AFP |
Coronavirus in Nigeria. The country holds the first announced case confirmed of the unique coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa.
The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan earlier this week, Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement on Twitter.
“The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos,” Ehanire said.
Italy has shifted to be a hotbed of infection in recent days, with the highest outbreak in Europe.
But the low number of cases across Africa, which has close economic ties with China, the epicentre of the deadly outbreak, has baffled health specialists.
Before the case in Nigeria, there had been just two cases across the continent each with one reported in Egypt and Algeria.
The World Health Organization advised earlier this week that African health systems were ill-equipped to respond should cases start to propagate on the continent.
However, Ehanire said the government had been working to ensure an outbreak is “controlled and contained quickly”.
“I wish to assure all Nigerians that… we have been beefing up our preparedness capabilities since the first confirmation of cases in China. We have already started working to identify all the contacts of the patient since he entered Nigeria.” he said
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