Lagos Family Of Six Quarantined

A family of six with two adults and four children has been quarantined following exposure to the coronavirus index case in Lagos, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi announced on Wednesday.

Briefing newsmen in Lagos, the commissioner said that the situation in the state remained unchanged with only one positive case associated with the Italian index case.

“We’ve admitted a family of four children and their teacher who came from the United States but apparently they were in close proximity with somebody who had coronavirus infection.

“So we’ve had them in isolation for the past 2 days. Their first test is negative, so we’re going to repeat that in 48 hours,” he said.

“We also have another gentleman from the United Kingdom, so we are going to run his tests sometime today.

“The situation at the moment remains the same. 1 index case and one positive as a result of contact with the index case and that’s it”.

The commissioner added that the state government has established contact with the two people who were in the Turkish Airline with the index case.

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