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Italian Man Who Brought COVID-19 To Nigeria Discharged After Testing Negative

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The Italian that brought Coronavirus to Nigeria has fully recovered and has been discharged.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who confirmed this last night, said the Italian tested negative to the virus twice and was thus allowed to go home.

“You can quote me, he has been discharged. He is now clean of the virus,” the governor told THISDAY.

The Italian, Nigeria’s index case of coronavirus, flew into the country from Milan on February 24.

He had lodged at a hotel close to Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, before moving to Ewekoro in Ogun state, the next day, for a job at the cement company in the town.

He fell sick on the third day of his stay in the country and tested positive for the disease two days after.

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Meanwhile, the number of people who have died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic globally has now exceeded 10,000, with more than 232,000 infected in 158 countries and territories, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on official data, as at Friday morning.

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