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January 28, 2020
The West African Health Organisation, WAHO has advisedNigerians on the recent outbreak of coronavirus infection in China, so thatthey can protect themselves and the region.
The agency’s Director-General Stanley Okolo, gave the advicein a statement in Abuja.
He said the agency is fully in support of World HealthOrganisation, WHO recommendations to countries regarding active surveillance,early detection, isolation and case management, and contact tracing to preventfurther spread of the outbreak.
First identified by Chinese researchers with the pathogenbehind a mysterious illness that had sickened 59 people in Wuhan, a city of 11million in central China, coronavirus is a group of viruses common amonganimals, but now confirmed that it could also infect humans.
The large family of viruses can cause diseases ranging fromcommon cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, (SARS)
He added that WAHO was coordinating with member States toshare real-time information on the outbreak, enhance communication betweencountries and strengthen countries’ surveillance capacity.