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The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) says state governors have initiated surveillance and emergency responses in all states to tackle an outbreak of coronavirus in the country.
The forum said the measures would ensure a quick response and that attention is given to anyone showing symptoms of the disease.
The NGF chairman, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, said this in a statement on Friday.
Mr Fayemi also assured that resources would be deployed across states to contain further spread of the virus.
He urged citizens to desist from the spread of fake news and misinformation “that can trigger fear, panic and chaos”.
On Friday, Nigerians woke up to the news that an unidentified Italian businessman who tested positive for the virus at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, had been taken to the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Yaba.
The Senate health committee has earlier asked the Federal Ministry of Health to set up a ‘Health War Room’.
The Federal government has also released N386 million to two health agencies to curtail the spread of the virus.
Coronavirus, officially named COVID-19, broke out in Wuhan in Hubei province of China in December last year.
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