Commissioner for Health, Professor AKIN ABAYOMI disclosed that about ten percent of the one hundred and seventy-two Nigerians who returned from Ivory Coast last week tested positive to Coronavirus.
Professor ABAYOMI said the state government took the Nigerians coming from Ivory Coast into their quarantine facility in Badagry where they are been quarantined for fourteen days.
On management of COVID-19 corpses, ABAYOMI said that officials from the Ministries of Health and Environment had been trained to specially prepare such bodies before handing them over to their families for burial.
The Commissioner warned that only sealed masks, which cover the entire face and filter air breathing, could protect one from contracting coronavirus.
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