LAGOS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Nigeria's first confirmed
coronovirus case entered the country on a Turkish Airlines
flight that travelled via Istanbul, the Lagos State Commissioner
for Health told a news conference on Friday.
The man, who travelled from Milan, Italy, and landed on the
evening of Feb. 24, spent the night in a hotel near the airport,
and continued to his place of work in neighbouring Ogun state,
Commissioner Akin Abayomi said.
He was treated on the evening of Feb. 26 at his company's
medical facility before health practitioners there called
government biosecurity officers, who transferred him on Feb. 27
to a containment facility in Yaba, Lagos.
The man is the first confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa.