Coronavirus: Six Quarantined in Lagos

Agency Report/

Six persons identified as four children and two adults who allegedly had contact with the coronavirus index case in Lagos have been quarantined, the state announced today.

The State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, told reporters that although the six persons had all tested negative, another test would be conducted on them within the next 48 hours for final confirmation.

“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.”