The Minister of Health, Ehanire Osagie has warned health workers against treating suspected cases of Covid-19 privately.
Osagie who said this at the Presidential Task Force daily media briefing on Friday April 10, directed all health workers to refer all cases to certified healthcare facilities for isolation and management.
The Minister said;
“All medical practitioners, health care workers and also the public are reminded that Covid-19 is such a highly infectious disease and they should abstain from trying to privately treat or manage these cases in their homes.
“Only designated treatment centre can provide safe isolation and management of Covid-19 patients.
“All designated isolation and treatment centres have adequate supplies to manage cases and there is no shortage of Personal Protective Equipment and no fear of shortage in the short term for health workers.”
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Anedoonline reported that five Nigerians were said to have tested positive of coronavirus between March 28 and March 30, after the screening 3,779 travellers from high-risk countries.
According to the Guangzhou Health Commission, four of them had visited an eatery called Emma Food multiple times.
The restaurant owner, alongside her daughter and another child, later tested positive for the contagion.
The five Nigerians with the infection were said to have been detected between March 28 and March 30, after the screening 3,779 travellers from high-risk countries.
Guangzhou which is situated 1,028 kilometres (638 miles) south of Wuhan, where coronavirus started from has no recorded 466 new cases.
A total of 197 people who had close contact with the patients have been tested and isolated.
Also, the owner of Emma Food, known as Zhuang, has been put under quarantine since April 1.
Zhuang’s 8-year-old daughter and her three-year-old playmate both were diagnosed with the deadly disease on the next day.
However, Amid a wave of opposition, 15 Chinese medical experts arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday, to join the battle against Coronavirus.
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