The outcome of the coronavirus test on two Nigerians is negative, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Emmanuel Ehanire, has said.

He announced this during the opening ceremony of Kano State Primary Health Summit at Government House on Wednesday.

Ehanire 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 is 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 said FG would spend N620m special intervention fund to monitor, detect and contain coronavirus.