WHO to trace 103 travellers on flight with Italian victim

Nigeria has intensified efforts to trace all persons that had contact with the Italian whose Coronavirus infection is the country’s index case.

Specifically, it has enlisted the World Health Organisation (WHO) support to reach 103 out of the 158 passengers that flew into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos with the Italian on Feb 25.

Also yesterday, the  House of Representatives members sought  two weeks break to enable the management of the National Assembly put measures in place to safeguard them against the virus.

It said some of  passengers had either travelled to other states in Nigeria or gone  back to Europe. The government  added that those contacted through the telephone.

But on Tuesday, the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, and Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said Nigeria was working with WHO to track the uncooperative passengers.

Mamora, who featured on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja, said 100 people, including 54 co-passengers  of the infected Italian, had been traced.

– The Nation