Nigeria has recorded another Ebola case, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said Monday.

Mr. Chukwu​ ​​said the new case is the fiance of one of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer.

Mr. Sawyer is the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Nigeria late July.

Mr. Chukwu said the primary contact had, however, made a fully recovery.

Th​e 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 rumo​u​rs 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 ​ha​s only one Ebola patient — the wife of Mr. Enemuo — whom he said was already recovering and would soon be discharged.

yousouphe: I pray this ebola doesn't manifest later, cuz we ve been hearing successfuly managed and discharged without the presssumed vaccine that works for ebola ,now US is praising Nigeria the same US that refused us their ZMAPP isn't this questionable ?

lilprinze: Does Nigeria now have Zmapp because all I hear is cases have been successfully managed and patients have been discharged. Abeg what are they taking to manage it?

kennydee05: Lagos will surely overcome it and it will surely be the last Ebola case that will be reported in Nigeria.

berem: Ebola,pack your load and go in Jesus name!!!

kennydee05: Lagos will surely overcome it and it will surely be the last Ebola case that will be reported in Nigeria.