Ebola: Nurse, husband who escaped
quarantine relocated to Lagos in
special ambulance- Minister on august 14, 2014 Nigerian Minister for Health, Professor
Onyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed
that the Lagos nurse who travelled to
Enugu against medical advice is now
back in Lagos and is under quarantine
with her husband. The suspect, identified as a nurse, said
to have travelled to her home town to
visit her family, is now under
surveillance with 20 others she came
into contact with in the city. With the development, the total
number of Nigerians under
monitoring for the dreaded virus is
now 198. Revealing these facts yesterday after
the Federal Executive Council meeting
in Abuja, Information Minister, Labaran
Maku, explained that Nigeria currently
has 10 confirmed cases of Ebola, all
stemming from the visit of the late Sawyer. Maku explained that of the 198
persons under surveillance, 177 of
them are in Lagos while 21 are in
Enugu. He said: “All those who had primary
contact have been quarantined.
Secondary contacts have also been
traced. So far, the number of people
that have been traced is 198. “Of this number, 177 are in Lagos and
are being traced. Some are in
quarantine, some are being monitored
by health specialists.” Meanwhile, the death toll world wide
from the outbreak stands at 1,069 and
total number of infections 1,975,
according to the World Health
Organisation.

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