The Ogun State Government has said that it will identify all individuals that had contacts with the Italian citizen confirmed to have contracted Coronavirus.
The Italian citizen, according to the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker at a press conference in Abeokuta, on Friday, visited Ewekoro area of the State.
Coker said the patient arrived in the State, on the 26th of February, developed symptoms suspected to be Coronavirus and was attended to, at a health facility before he was taken to Lagos in an enclosed ambulance.
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The commissioner hinted that the government had put measures in place to search for all those who came in contact with the infected person and monitor their temperature for two weeks.
She stated that the place visited by the patient had been quarantined for safety.
She urged members of the public to remain calm, saying the State epidemiologist and other health officials were on top of the situation.
