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The federal government on Wednesday
confirmed five new cases of Ebola in Lagos
and a second death from the virus, bringing
the total number of infections in sub-Saharan
Africa’s largest city to seven.
Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the Health Minister
said that among the medical personnel
(nurse) that attended to the late Liberian-
American, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola
virus in Lagos on July 25, has died of the
same disease.
“Nigeria has now recorded 7 confirmed cases
of Ebola Virus Disease (EVB)” health minister
Onyebuchi Chukwu said.
Those who have died include the “index
patient,” a Liberian who brought the virus to
Lagos on July 20, and a nurse who treated
him, the minister added.
“All the Nigerians diagnosed with EBV were
primary contacts” of Patrick Sawyer, who
worked for Liberia’s finance ministry and
contracted the virus from his sister, Chukwu
said.
Patrick Sawyer travelled to Nigeria, Africa’s
most populous country, for a meeting of west
African officials.
Visibly sick upon arrival at the international
airport in Lagos, officials said he was
immediately transferred to the First
Consultants hospital in the upmarket Ikoyi
neighbourhood.
He died in quarantine on July 25 and the
hospital has since been closed.
The five Ebola patients are being treated in an
isolation ward in Lagos, the minister told
journalists.
Since breaking out earlier this year, the
tropical virus has claimed almost 900 lives
and infected more than 1,603 people across
west Africa. The other cases have been
reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.