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February 13, 2020
TheFederal Executive Council, FEC says Nigeria has obtained reagents needed fortesting and detection of Corona virus.
Coronavirus, found in Wahum, China has spread to the US, Thailand, Japan, SouthKorea, Canada, Philippines among others, is a new strain of virus that has notbeen previously identified in humans.
TheMinister of Health Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this to State House correspondentsafter FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at thePresidential Villa, Abuja.
Onwhy the virus had not been reported in Africa, he said that for a disease toenter a place, somebody or something must carry it. He  added that aperson could bring a disease while an animal might carry it as in the case ofmosquitoes for malaria and rats for Lassa fever.
Ministersaid that he updated the council on the state of preparedness for the trendingproblem of Corona virus and also the endemic Lassa fever in Nigeria, addingthat the frontline is the port health services while the second line of defencewas the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control.