The matron started showing symptoms of the virus early. She was among the health workers that attended to the late Sawyer who died in the hospital on July 25 and officially, the first Nigerian casualty.
She had been quarantined along seven others at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Lagos for close monitoring.
Also, a female medical doctor, who attended to late Sawyer, had also contracted the deadly virus...
About 59 people were reported to have had direct or primary contacts with the Sawyer. The 27 others who had secondary contacts with the primary contacts had been traced.
Lagos government has called on religious groups in the state to stop all gatherings until a solution to the Ebola outbreak is found in order not to escalate the situation.
FG confirms seven Ebola cases
The Health minister, at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said, “Nigeria has now recorded seven confirmed cases of EVD.
“The first one was the index case, which is the imported case from Liberia of which the victim(Sawyer) is now late. On August 5, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD was recorded and this was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five cases are currently being treated at an isolation ward in Lagos.”
He added that all the Nigerians diagnosed were primary contacts of the index case.
