Coronavirus: Lafarge Closes Ewekoro Plant, Quarantines 28 Contacts

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Following the incident of Coronavirus recorded in Ogun State, the state government says 28 people who had contact with the Italian patient have been identified and quarantined.

The government also said the Lafarge Cement plant where the victim visited in Ewekoro has been shut down.

The state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, disclosed this today, while giving update of the Coronavirus incident in the state in a chat with journalists in Abeokuta, the state capital.

He said the state government was continuing with efforts were to identify more contacts to curb the spread of the disease.

The governor said, “The particular company in question has been practically shut down and they have set up two isolation centres within the premises.

“They have identified all those that have been in contact with this index, totalling about 28. All those 28 people have been quarantined.”

Earlier, the Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr Tomi Coker, said the 44-year-old unnamed victim, who is a consultant to the Lafarge, fell ill while visiting the Ewekoro plant of the company.

Coker said, “In the last 12 hours, the first case of the chronic virus has been identified in Nigeria and the individual was visiting Ogun State.

“The individual is of Italian origin and he is a consultant to the Lafarge, Ewekoro factory.”

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