The Federal Executive has stated that the Ebola affected person in Abuja is responding smartly to remedy and appearing indicators of restoration.
The Coordinating Minister of Well being and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate, disclosed this on Thursday whilst briefing newshounds at the nationwide reaction in Abuja.
DAILY POST studies that the affected person is a lady who lately returned from Uganda and was once admitted to a non-public health center within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, the place she gained remedy for a number of days sooner than laboratory affirmation of Ebola virus illness.
Recall that the Federal Executive on Tuesday showed one imported case of Ebola within the FCT and stated 44 contacts have been recognized for tracking, together with healthcare staff, sufferers, caregivers and go back and forth contacts.
Pate stated the lady is recently in isolation and receiving hospital treatment, whilst touch tracing, quarantine of high-risk contacts and surveillance had been intensified to forestall additional unfold.
“I spoke with the clinicians as of late, and I needless to say the laboratory effects display important growth. There’s a risk that she is going to get better absolutely. On the other hand, we can’t take the rest with no consideration.
“We recently have one showed case, and our precedence is to comprise it and save you transmission into communities or a much wider outbreak. We’re running very exhausting to make certain that this doesn’t occur,” the minister stated.
He defined that the case was once imported according to the affected person’s go back and forth historical past, noting that she was once asymptomatic when she arrived in Nigeria however advanced signs a couple of days later.
The minister stated there was once no proof but of group transmission and instructed Nigerians to stay calm, follow preventive measures and file suspected circumstances instantly.