The Lagos State Government has that the second coronavirus patient in Nigeria would be treated at the Biosecurity Facility of the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.

The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this disclosure in a press release by the Lagos State Ministry of Health.

According to Abayomi, forty (40) people had been isolated at the Lafarge health centre in Ewekoro, Ogun State since the index case was confirmed.

He further stated that the second confirmed coronavirus case was an indication of the first person-to-person transmission of the deadly disease in the country.

He noted that Lagos State Government via its Ministry of Health made a decision to take responsibility for the treatment and management of the second patient.

The commissioner said

the resolve to take responsibility for the management of the patient is because Lagos State is not ready to take chances with the spread of the disease, especially when the proximity of both States is taken into consideration.

What transpired is that the secondary case is one of the 40 suspected cases who came in close contact with the index case and had previously been in isolation at Lafarge Health Facility in Ewekoro.

We felt that it is in the interest of all that the patient be managed at the Mainland Hospital Yaba. This is why the patient is being moved from Ogun state to Lagos.

Justin Nwosu

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