The Minister of Health, Prof. Chukwu, has put the total number of confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria at 18. The 18th patient, according to the Federal Government, is the sister of the late Port Harcourt doctor who died of the Ebola recently.
According to him: “The total number of EVD patients currently under treatment is two, one in the Lagos isolation ward and another one in the Port Harcourt isolation ward.
“The total number of contacts currently under surveillance in Lagos is 41, while Port Harcourt is 255. The total number of contacts discharged in Lagos after they were observed for 21 days is 320.”Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) described the recent Ebola outbreak as the world’s worst ever recorded as it has so far killed 1,552 people in some West African countries with 3, 062 people infected in the past six months.
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