Coronavirus: FG orders immediate shut down of all schools

Federal Government shut down schools nationwide over deadly coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.

Onyxnewsng reports that the Federal Ministry of Education has given directive to immediately shut down tertiary institutions, secondary and primary schools nationwide.

The online news platform understands that this is part of the preventive measures to curb the further spread of coronavirus in the country.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono confirmed this development in Abuja on Thursday, 19 March.

Meanwhile, this is happening after the Lagos State Ministry of Health confirmed it has four fresh cases of coronavirus. And it was announced by the State Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi.

On Wednesday, the Federal Ministry of Health announced five new cases including a 6-week old baby and her mother. Making it a total of 12 cases of the disease.

One of the first two cases has since tested negative with the index case, an Italian about to test negative too. In the briefing on Thursday, Abayomi said 19 people were tested with four of them testing positive.

The Commissioner of Health said the first of the four new cases who tested positive to the disease was a woman who had contact with the woman who came from the UK some days ago who was tested positive.

According to Abayomi, the second new case was a female who returned from France on the 14th of March on a Turkish airline TK 1830. The third case was a Nigerian male in his 50s who had not travelled anywhere but was tested positive for the virus.

The Commissioner of Health further revealed that the number four new case was a Nigerian male who arrived in the country on the 13th of March from Frankfurt to Lagos on Lufthansa airline, flight number LH568.

However, the Lagos State Commissioner, said more tests were still being carried out and, “we have a combination of imported cases and local transmission. The Executive of Lagos State is meeting on the next stage of social distancing.

“The best way to slow the rate is to halt the movement of the virus from person to person,” he said.

The Commissioner of Health appealed to people on the two flights to self-isolate themselves and reach the government.

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