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LAGOS. — The Nigerian government yesterday said the country has recorded another Ebola case in southwest Lagos state, bringing the total number of Ebola cases to 19 with seven fatalities.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, the country’s Minister of Health, told reporters in the capital Abuja that 10 others have recovered after treatment, with the rest being treated.
The new case is the fiancé of one of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer.
The late Sawyer is the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation late July.
The primary contact had made a fully recovery, the minister added, noting that the sister of the southern city of Port Harcourt doctor, who treated one of Sawyer’s primary contact in a hotel secretly, has fully recovered and been discharged.
With the latest developments, the total number of people under surveillance in Lagos have reduced to 27 while Port Harcourt has 477, the minister said.
The current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) started in Guinea has killed more than 2,000 people have so far in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. — Xinhua.
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