Lagos State Government has said that the Chinese citizen who was admitted at the Reddington Hospital, Ikeja on Wednesday and suspected to have coronavirus has tested negative to the infection.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, in a statement on Thursday, said the likelihood of COVID-19 infection in the particular patient was very low and the conclusion of investigations and sophisticated testing confirms that there is no case of coronavirus in Lagos 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 safeguard the State,” he said.
Abayomi said the ministry of health’s attention was drawn to the suspected case of coronavirus at Reddington Hospital; a private health facility located at Ikeja.
“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,” he said.
Abayomi appealed to citizens to refrain from sharing unverified news that can cause anxiety.
He urged citizens to disregard any information about the novel coronavirus that does not emanate from official communication channels of the ministry of health or his office.
