Nigeria Will Spend N620million To Prevent The Outbreak Of Coronavirus – Health Minister

The Nigerian Government has disclosed that N620m will be needed to prevent the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus in Nigeria.

The virus has moved from China to other countries and the Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire has appeared before the Senate Committee on health to intimate the panel on what the ministry is doing to stop the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

The Minister said the Health Ministry has tendered a memo requesting for the release of N620m to fight the outbreak of the virus in Nigeria

Also, he said the ministry had a multi-stakeholder meeting to deploy port health services to check passengers arriving into the country

However, the Senate said screenings are not taking place in the Chattered flight passengers’ wing of the local flights that arrived at the airports. The committee said this oversight could lead to disaster as the virus could gain entry into the country

So, the Senate has instructed the Health Minister to deploy health officials to the private wing and carry out screenings of VIPs using chartered flights