The Chief Medical Doctor at the facility where the Italian man with the Coronavirus disease is being held has given the reason why he doesn’t wear mask around him.
Over the weekend, Nigerians blasted him and the state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, after a photo of them speaking to the Italian man in the Isolation center surfaced without them wearing any protective gadget.
The Chief Medical Director said there is no need to wear the mask when there is a reasonable distance between the patient and himself.
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He said
“I am not using any facemask because the distance between me and where the patient is is more than 2 meters so I can’t get infected. It is only when I am going to move into the ward and move closer to the patient is when I am going to put on my full PPE. So we know what we are doing and there is no need for anyone to panic”.
It’s no longer news that coronavirus has been declared an International epidemic by World Health Organisation(WHO).
Nigeria has recorded it’s first Coronavirus case last week, and since then 59 persons have been quarantined in Lagos.
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