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The authorities at the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday commenced screening of staff and visitors as part of deliberate efforts to check possible spread of coronavirus.

Sanitisers were also placed at strategic places within the presidential villa.

NAN said some staff expressed satisfaction with the development and lauded the management of the state house for taking precautionary measures to guide against the spread of the virus.

Kabiru Yusuf, an Aso Rock official, reportedly urged government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) as well as private organisations and establishments to emulate the state house by putting in place similar measures to check the influx of the virus.

Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, had on February 27, confirmed the index case of coronavirus disease in Lagos.

Ehanire declared that the first established patient was an Italian who just returned from Milan, Italy, to Lagos, Nigeria on February 25, 2020.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), thereafter released a public health advisory on the COVID-19 to Nigerians, which included frequent washing of hands with soap under running water or use of alcohol-based sanitisers when water was not available.

However, the recommendation of sanitisers as one of the measures that could reduce the risk of COVID-19 has brought about sudden increase in demand for the product across the country.