Over the past week, the coronavirus has proliferated over the globe with new cases in almost all continents, with Antarctica being the only exception. Sub-Saharan Africa has recorded its first case in Nigeria, which happens to be the third confirmed case in Africa. The other two coronavirus cases are in Algeria and Egypt. The coronavirus case in Nigeria is an Italian citizen who flew into the commercial city of Lagos from Milan (a city badly hit by the coronavirus outbreak) on February 24, 2020. He was aboard a Turkish Airlines flight. The Italian citizen works in Nigeria. Nigerian authorities report that the Italian stayed in a hotel near the airport on the evening of February 24, 2020 and continued to his place of work in Ogun state. He was first attended to on February 26 at his company's medical facility before being transferred on February 27 to a containment facility in Yaba, Lagos. In a statement, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said: "We have already st...
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