WHO applauds Nigeria’s Handling of 1st Coronavirus case

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has praised the way Nigeria has so far handled the first case of coronavirus detected in the country.

Roughly 2 weeks ago, Nigeria confirmed its first case of the deadly virus after an Italian man who works as an Engineer in Nigeria returned from Milan.

In forthwith response, Nigeria quarantined him and thereafter made efforts to contact all the people that came in close contact with the Italian.

Meanwhile, the NCDC took to Twitter to announce that it had published genome sequence from the COVID19 case in Nigeria.

“Nigeria has published the first African SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, from the #COVID19 case in Nigeria,” NCDC wrote.

This prompted a response from Tedros thanking Nigeria.

“Thank you @NCDCgov & the Government of #Nigeria for the swift & transparent way you have shared the #COVID19 sequence from the country’s first case. This a true act of solidarity and an important step in stopping the #coronavirus from spreading further,” the WHO Director-General said.

Meanwhile, the Italian man is said to be recovering from the deadly illness that has so far claimed over 3400 lives worldwide.