Nigeria’s Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire has just announced another confirmed coronavirus patient in Nigeria
The coronavirus patient was among those kept in isolation after interacting with the Italian man who brought the deadly disease to Nigeria.
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control in a tweet this morning confirmed the case.
In a tweet, NCDC wrote:
This second case is a contact of the index case in Ogun State. The new case has been in isolation and was tested as part of our strategy to test all contacts of the index case.
This is a developing story. More details later.
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