Two Nigerians – 27-year-old indigene of
Abia State and 22-year-old indigene of Edo
State – who reside in Freetown, Sierra
Leone have tested positive to the deadly
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The minister of state for health, Dr Khaliru
Alhassan, who disclosed this at the just-
concluded National Council on Health
Meeting, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, said details of
the two cases will be made available when
full investigation of their status is
concluded.
“According to information made available to
the ministry from health officials in Sierra
Leone, one of them has been successfully
treated and is technically cured, and has
returned to Nigeria while the other one, has
been placed in an isolation centre in
Freetown”
Dr Alhassan said although the nation’s
borders will continue to remain open for the
free movement of people and goods within
the region, government will continue to
strengthen and sustain proactive vigilance
and surveillance at all its borders – air, sea
and land.
He appealed to the countries already
infected to strengthen their surveillance and
quarantine network to minimise escape
from such networks by people already put
under surveillance to other non-infected
countries.
He noted that the recent declaration of
Nigeria as an Ebola-free nation on Monday,
the 20th of October, 2014 connotes that
Nigeria’s strategies to fight the outbreak
had worked and that Nigeria is now not to
be listed among countries infected by the
deadly virus any longer.
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November 6, 2014 by Staff Writer
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