Nigeria’s Ebola index patient recovers in Switzerland
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Business Day Nigeria
Nigeria’s Ebola index patient has recovered after being transferred to Switzerland and left hospital following a negative test. The patient, evacuated on 26 October, had still tested positive on arrival in Switzerland, according to Jide Idris, director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
The patient considered Nigeria’s Ebola index case has recovered and left a hospital in Switzerland after testing negative for the virus. Jide Idris, director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), announced this on Friday during a press briefing.
The patient was medically evacuated to Switzerland on 26 October after receiving treatment in Nigeria. Tests carried out on arrival still detected the virus, before additional treatment led to her recovery and a negative test, according to Jide Idris.
Nigeria confirmed her infection on 20 October in Abuja. She was a woman born in Uganda, the wife of a Swiss diplomat, who had travelled to Uganda before returning to Nigeria and developing symptoms. Her diagnosis triggered contact tracing, surveillance and monitoring of exposed people, according to the NCDC.
The recovery comes after 62 contacts were monitored in Nigeria and the announcement on 10 November that there had been no new cases for 21 days, reported in the follow-up on the index patient still testing positive and later in no new cases in Nigeria.
