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The Federal Ministry of Health has announced a COVID-19 case in Lagos State.
The case, which was confirmed on February 27, 2020, is the first case to be reported in the country since the beginning of the outbreak in China in January 2020.
The ministry disclosed that the case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on February 25, 2020.
He was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCSC).
The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.
