Nigeria Registers 1st Coronavirus Case As Kenya Entertains Chinese Flights

Nigeria has sadly recorded its first case of Coronavirus through an Italian man who has been in the country for less than three days, authorities have confirmed.

The Italian man who arrived in Nigeria three days ago has become the first case of coronavirus for the Country, the health minister confirmed on Friday.

Coronavirus has continued to spread like wildfire across the globe and the first reported case in Nigeria has thrown the citizens into a panic with lack of awareness still very rife in the country.

Nigeria’s first case of coronavirus has been reported in the state of Lagos which is the biggest city in the country reporting an estimated population of 20 million.

“The case…is the first case to be reported in Nigeria since the beginning of the outbreak in China in January,” the health ministry said in its post noting that the infection was confirmed on Thursday.

The Italian man, according to the health minister Osagie Ehanire, works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos on the 25th of February 2020.

The first case of the coronavirus as confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

“The Italian Coronavirus patient in Nigeria is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms,” said the minister, adding that he was being treated at a hospital in the Lagos district of Yaba.

“We have already started working to identify all the contacts of the patient since he entered Nigeria,” said Ehanire revealing the Country’s attempts to avoid a spread of the coronavirus in Nigeria.

Coronavirus has no cure just like other viruses and is worse as it is easily spread and is deadly having claimed thousands of lives so far.

All the cases reported in the world since the outbreak was reported in January 2020 in Wuhan, China, have been controlled through quarantine.

The coronavirus has so far led to nearly 80,000 infections and killed 2,800 deaths, according to China’s official figures, though there are fears the situation could be worse than is being broadcasted.

Coronavirus has so far spread to 46 countries with an estimated 3,700 cases and 57 deaths having been reported according to the WHO figures.

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