This is official. Lagos is not the only state in Nigeria that has
been hit by the deadly Ebola Virus Disease; Enugu has become the next in line.
Twenty one persons out of the 198 so far quarantined because of the virus are
in Enugu, says the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku. Maku told State House
correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on
Wednesday that Enugu came into the picture because one of the nurses that
treated the American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, shunned medical advice and
travelled to the city.
Sawyer, the index case of EVD in Nigeria, died on July 25 in an
Obalende, Lagos hospital five days after he arrived in the country. The matron
of the hospital died last week while an Economic Commission of West African
States Protocol Officer, Jatto Abdulqudir, who picked up Sawyer from the
Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos passed on on Tuesday. He said all those the
nurse came into contact with, including her husband, were currently under
quarantine. The minister said, All those who had primary contacts have been
quarantined. Secondary contacts have also been traced.
Punch Newspaper
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