The Italian citizen who brought the coronavirus to Nigeria has been discharged.
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu who announced this in his Twitter handle said the Italian man is now negative.
He twitted: “As the COVID-19 Incident Commander for Lagos, I am glad to inform you that the index case; the Italian gentleman is now negative.
“Through a combined effort of Lagos, Ogun State and Federal Health Authorities, we were able to limit the transmission of the virus to a single contact.
“This involved aggressive contact tracing and containment strategies. However we now have several new imported cases and we hope we can apply the same contact tracing strategy along with social distancing to slow down the outbreak which may be brewing from these new cases.”