The federal government is trying to trace most of the 155 passengers in the aircraft that brought to Nigeria the Italian confirmed with coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Abuja.
He said 156 passengers were on the manifest of the flight that brought the Italian.
The minister said some of the passengers on board the aircraft that brought the Italian were yet to be traced because of the ambiguity of the contact information they provided.
Ehanire said that since the confirmation of the first case of the disease, the government had been focusing on containment including contact tracing to check further spread.
He said that as of yesterday, there was no new confirmed case recorded in Nigeria.
The minister said currently, the contacts of the index case traced were 19 in Lagos and 39 in Ogun State.
He said that workers in the hotel where the index case stayed had been interviewed and isolated and that the taxi driver who drove the suspect had been identified and was under supervision.
The minister added that the airline that brought the victim had been advised to also put their crew under observation.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said yesterday that over 100 people who had one sort of contact or the other with the Italian had been identified and quarantined.
Prof. Abayomi, who addressed newsmen shortly after a stakeholder’s meeting on coronavirus, which held at Lagos House, Ikeja, said that the state was exercising extreme caution by finding where all his contacts were.
