Ogun State government Tuesday said it has identified 32 persons who had contact with the fresh case of coronavirus in the state.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abeokuta, said the contacts included four family members of the case and 28 healthcare givers.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had earlier on Tuesday confirmed two new cases of the novel coronavirus in Lagos and Ogun states, thus increasing the total number of persons infected by the deadly disease in the country.
Coker, who was flanked by the governor’s Special Adviser on Public Communications, Hon. Remmy Hazzan, said the new case in the state is a 62-year-old male resident in Sagamu.
According to her, the new case returned from the United Kingdom on March 17 and tested positive after showing coronavirus symptoms.
She stated that the sexagenarian had been transferred to the state’s isolation centre at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu.
Coker added that the priority of the state government was to provide care for the case.
She said: “Today, we have a newly confirmed case of COVID-19 in Ogun State. The said case is a 62-year-old male who resides in Sagamu and he had history of recent travel, returning from the United Kingdom on the 17th of March. He presented with history of cough and was tested and the test came back positive.
“All his contacts have been traced; 28 healthcare givers and four members of his family – 32 altogether. He’s been very responsible by isolating himself since he arrived; therefore he’s made our job quite easy in tracing his contacts.”
