CoronaVirus Case In Nigeria Is lie! Read through

It's just because of the United Nations subsidy Money that they set out for the affected countries that is why Nigeria proposed and hesitate to claim the disease here in Nigeria take note but it's really a big lie and again the affected Italian man they are talking don't him have name? The illness was diagnosed in an Italian who landed in Lagos, the country’s largest city and one of the continent’s biggest metropolises. Nigeria acted quickly, but there are fears that the virus could sweep the region. DAKAR, Senegal — An Italian contractor who flew into Nigeria from Milan became sub-Saharan Africa’s first confirmed coronavirus patient on Friday, stoking concern that an outbreak on the continent could overwhelm already strained health care systems. The patient, a young man, had no symptoms when he landed this week in Lagos, traveled 60 miles north to the cement factory where he works and developed a fever there, a Nigerian health commissioner said to reporters. The appearance of the first case in Lagos — a city of 20 million people and the economic capital of Africa’s most populous nation — set off fear, rumors and panicked buying of hand sanitizer and face masks. It also posed a test for the Nigerian medical system, which like others in Africa, has been preparing for the virus to arrive for weeks. “I feel scared,” said Karo Otitifore, an elementary schoolteacher waiting at a bus stop in Yaba, the Lagos suburb where the Italian patient was being treated. “I try to sit tight, squeeze my whole body so that I won’t have to have too much body contact with people.” Public health officials have been warning that the coronavirus could be devastating in Africa, a continent with relatively weak health care and disease surveillance systems. So the Nigerian health system — which had gained a reputation for efficiently containing cases during the Ebola epidemic in 2014 — responded quickly to the appearance of a suspected case of coronavirus. The young Italian was sent back to Lagos, where he is being treated in a hospital facility that had been set aside to handle coronavirus, while a team of epidemiologists traces his contacts. Dr. Ngozi Erondu, an associate fellow in the Global Health Program at Chatham House, an international research group in London, said Nigeria’s confirmation of the coronavirus case in just two days was “a very positive reflection of the disease surveillance and laboratory capacity in Nigeria.” But it will be key, she said, for all African countries to enhance scrutiny of travelers, especially those coming from countries with documented outbreaks. The coronavirus, which emerged in central China late last year, has spread to almost 50 countries, sickening about 84,000 people and killing nearly 3,000 — mostly in mainland China. But in recent weeks, the virus has spread across the globe with outbreaks in Iran, Japan, South Korea and Italy, especially in Milan. To date, 26 African countries have reported suspected coronavirus cases, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only three countries on the continent — Algeria and Egypt in North Africa — and now Nigeria in the sub-Saharan region, have announced confirmed cases. The case in Algeria was an Italian who arrived in the country on Feb. 17, according to the World Health Organization. Global health experts had anticipated that the virus would most likely spread to Africa from China, which has increased its ties with Africa enormously over the past two decades. To combat the potential spread of the deadly outbreak, airlines including Egypt Air, Kenya Airways and South African Airways have suspended their flights to China.