Nigeria traces contacts linked to its only Ebola case
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
Nigeria’s Health Minister, Muhammad Pate, says the country’s only detected Ebola case is being managed and that authorities are tracing contacts of the infected person. Nigeria is cooperating with Uganda and promises regular updates on the situation, the minister said in Abuja, according to Punch.
Nigeria has begun tracing contacts linked to its only Ebola case and is working with Uganda to prevent the virus from spreading, Health and Social Welfare Minister Muhammad Pate said on Wednesday, according to Punch. He said the imported case was being managed and urged the public to remain vigilant without panicking.
Pate was speaking after a meeting on the situation at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention had activated its crisis management system and was working continuously. The presidential Ebola task force was also mobilised, while response plans were being reviewed.
The minister recalled that Nigeria had managed an Ebola outbreak in 2014 and said the authorities would keep the public regularly informed. The current outbreak had lasted five months without a case recorded in Nigeria before this imported infection was detected, he said.
Nigeria confirmed its first case in Abuja on 20 October. The authorities had identified 44 people who had been in contact with the patient, according to information already published about the Ebola case confirmed in Abuja and the tracing of 44 contacts.
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