Nigeria
has recorded another Ebola case, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said
Monday. Mr. Chukwu said the new case is the fiancée of one of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer. Late Mr.
Sawyer the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Nigeria late July. Mr.
Chukwu said the primary contact had, however, made
a fully recovery. The new case brings the total
number of Ebola cases in Nigeria to 19 with seven people dead from the disease
while 10 others have recovered, the minister said. He also noted that the
sister of the Port Harcourt doctor, Ikechukwu Enemuo, who treated one of Mr.
Sawyer’s primary contact in a hotel secretly, has fully recovered and been
discharged. Mr. Chukwu said with the latest developments, the total number of
people under surveillance in Lagos have reduced to 27 while Port Harcourt has
477. He also said that five people have been discharged from the Port Harcourt
isolation center following completion of the 21 days observation period. He
dispelled rumours of an outbreak of the disease in any
other state or city in Nigeria, outside of Lagos and Port Harcourt, Rivers
State. He said Nigeria currently has only one Ebola patient — the wife of Mr. Enemuo — whom he
said was already recovering and would soon be discharged.
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