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Two Nigerians Test Negative To Coronavirus, FG Confirms
The outcome of the Coronavirus test on two Nigerians is negative, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Emmanuel Ehanire, has confirmed.
He announced this during the opening ceremony of Kano State Primary Health Summit at Government House, Kano, yesterday.
He said the two suspected cases of Coronavirus tested negative after they were diagnosed in the country.
The minister said Nigeria has three well-equipped centres to diagnose the deadly disease and other viral infections.
Ehanire said the Ministry of Health was ready to contain the novel Coronavirus infectious disease, if eventually, it breaks out in Nigeria.
When he appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Ehanire had said that the Federal Government would spend N620million special intervention fund to monitor, detect and contain Coronavirus.