Lufthansa LH568: Lagos State Government Calls On Passengers Of To Self-Isolate 1 Love

As Lagos State Government continues to pull efforts at tracking down new cases of the Coronavirus, the Lagos State Government has appealed to all the passenger on board of the Lufthansa LH568 on March 13th and that of Turkish Flight TK 1830 on March 14th to Isolate themselves and contact the state ministry of health immediately.

The State government on Thursday, March 19th announced 4 new cases of the Coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 12. According to the state Ministry of Health, the 4 new cases were those that made contacts with the 5 cases earlier reported, on Wednesday, March 18th.

Some of the new cases reported is a Nigerian female who returned to the country from France via Turkish airline (TK1830) on March 14th, a Nigerian man in his 50s who is hadn’t travelled but made contact with one of the confirmed cases on arrival into the country, another Nigerian male who arrived in the country on March 13th from Frankfurt, Germany on the Luftansa LH568.

The state government said it is already tracking over 1,300 persons to get information about their state of health.

“We are appealing to everyone that were on these two airlines- Turkish flight of 14th of March, 2020 TK1830 and Lufthansa Flight of 13th of March, 2020 Lufthansa LH568 to self isolate and contact Lagos State Ministry of Health on 08000CORONA.

“Currently, we are following over 1,300 people right now to find informaton about the state of health and the number is increasing.

“We are running more test on suspected persons and contacts of confirmed cases. Call toll Free 08000CORONA lines to report suspected cases.” a tweet from the state Ministry of Health reads

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