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The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiosun, says the state government has quarantined 28 persons identified to have come in contact with the Italian man diagnosed with Corona-virus in Lagos.  Speaking at a press conference this evening, the governor said the Italian man visited the state for a consulting job at a cement factory in Ewekoro community. He said as part of measures to curtail the spread of the virus, the cement factory has also been sealed. The governor added that two of the cement factory's guest houses have been turned into isolation centers where those identified to have made contacts with the Italian man are being examined.

On February 26, the UK Parliament announced the discovery of a previously-hidden entrance that had been built for the coronation of King Charles II in 1661. The discovery was made as part of a long-term restoration project by the  Parliament's Architecture and Heritage Team . "We were trawling through 10,000 uncatalogued documents relating to the palace at the Historic England Archives in Swindon, when we found plans for the doorway in the cloister behind Westminster Hall," said Liz Hallam Smith, a professor and historical consultant for the project, in a statement. From there, the team was able to locate the hinges of two wooden doors measuring three and a half meters (eleven and a half feet) high each, with a small room between them. Dendrochronology, a field of science that determines the ages of trees, was used to verify that the wood on the ceiling of the small passage was chopped down in 1659. The passage was part of a longer pathway that would take p...