The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has announced
that the resumption date for public and private primary and secondary schools
in Nigeria has been reviewed for the second time from October 13 to the middle
of September. Owing to the Ebola outbreak, the federal government had extended
the summer holiday for schools nationwide from September to October 13.
However, Chukwu, while briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja after the weekly
Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said the Minister of Education,
Ibrahim Shekarau, had been directed by council to convene an emergency meeting
with all states Commissioners for Education with a view to agreeing on a new
resumption date nationwide. Also giving an update of the Ebola Virus Disease
(EVD) in the country, Chukwu revealed that one more patient had been discharged
in Lagos, bringing to eight the number of persons who had been given the all
clear after contracting the disease. He said the status since the outbreak of
the disease in the country, shows that a total of 18 persons (including the
index case) had been infected, out of which 14 are in Lagos and four in Port
Harcourt. With the discharge of one patient, the minister said two patients
were undergoing treatment in Lagos, while one was undergoing treatment in Port
Harcourt. He added that eight patients had been successfully treated and
discharged, while seven persons, including Patrick Sawyer, had so far died of
the disease.
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