The Lagos state government says Chinese citizen, who was suspected to have coronavirus, has tested negative to the infection.
The Chinese checked himself into Reddington Hospital, Ikeja, after experiencing symptoms of fever on Wednesday..
In a statement on Thursday, Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health, said the likelihood of COVID-19 infection in this particular patient was very low and the conclusion of investigations and sophisticated testing confirmed that there is no case of coronavirus in Lagos state as of now.
“I would like to reassure Lagosians that our vigilance levels are very high and we are putting more measures in place to safe guard the state,” he said.
“From our investigation, we gathered that a Chinese citizen who arrived in Nigeria from China 7 weeks ago presented at Reddington Hospital yesterday complaining about fever. The hospital in keeping with the advisory we earlier issued, correctly maintained a high index of suspicion, isolated the patient and reported the case to the Ministry.
“We took up the case, transferred the patient to the State Isolation Unit at the Mainland hospital which is our specialised infectious disease hospital. His blood samples were taken to the Virology laboratory for analysis and it came out negative.” (The Cable)
