This handout illustration image obtained February 27, 2020 courtesy of the National Institutes of Health taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab, SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19, the virus shown was isolated from a patient in the US. Handout / National Institutes of Health / AFP

The government of Ogun state has received some basic health care items from the Nigerian centre for diseases control to be distributed to its emergency operating centres across the twenty local government areas.

This follows an increase of the number of contacts identified by Lafarge cement company to have had contact with the Italian citizen in Ewekoro to 39 from the 28 earlier announced by the state Ogun government.

The new figure was given by the Lafarge industrial director, Mr Segun Soyoye, during a visit by officials of the state government and other stakeholders.

An emergency operation committee comprising officials of the state government, the world health organization, and other critical stakeholders has also been set up to give daily updates on the disease.