Nigeria records first Coronavirus incidence
As the novel 2019 Coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to increase and spread globally, forcing the World Health Organization (WHO) into acknowledging it as a health pandemic, it's been confirmed that the dreaded respiratory disease has touched down in Nigeria.
According to the country's federal minister of Health, Dr Ehanire, the Nigerian case involves an Italian citizen, who has been working in the country but had to travel to Milan, from where he returned on the 25th of February, carrying the virus. Italy, especially its northern region, has been hard hit with the virus.
The incidence was confirmed at the Virology Laboratory, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), which serves as one of the designated centres by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control as Laboratory Networks for the examination of suspected cases of the disease. The Italian is currently receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Centre located at Yaba, Lagos state. He's stable clinically, showing no serious obvious symptoms of the disease.
With a population of over 200 million, an impact of a spread would be disastrous to Nigerians. Meanwhile, the Federal Ministry of Health has assured the populace that measures are in place to contain the incidence and ensure that it's manageably curtailed to avoid escalation, whilst urging people to maintain basic hygiene.
As at the moment, there's still no known medication for the prevention and treatment of the novel Coronavirus that emanated from the Hubei Province of China where more than 80 thousand are infected, with recorded over 2800 deaths. South Korea is the second most hit by the virus after China, followed by Italy and Iran. Egypt and subsequently Algeria before now had been the only two African countries with the impact of the rapidly spreading deadly COVID-19.
According to the country's federal minister of Health, Dr Ehanire, the Nigerian case involves an Italian citizen, who has been working in the country but had to travel to Milan, from where he returned on the 25th of February, carrying the virus. Italy, especially its northern region, has been hard hit with the virus.
The incidence was confirmed at the Virology Laboratory, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), which serves as one of the designated centres by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control as Laboratory Networks for the examination of suspected cases of the disease. The Italian is currently receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Centre located at Yaba, Lagos state. He's stable clinically, showing no serious obvious symptoms of the disease.
With a population of over 200 million, an impact of a spread would be disastrous to Nigerians. Meanwhile, the Federal Ministry of Health has assured the populace that measures are in place to contain the incidence and ensure that it's manageably curtailed to avoid escalation, whilst urging people to maintain basic hygiene.
As at the moment, there's still no known medication for the prevention and treatment of the novel Coronavirus that emanated from the Hubei Province of China where more than 80 thousand are infected, with recorded over 2800 deaths. South Korea is the second most hit by the virus after China, followed by Italy and Iran. Egypt and subsequently Algeria before now had been the only two African countries with the impact of the rapidly spreading deadly COVID-19.
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