The Nigeria Centre for Illness Regulate and Prevention, NCDC, traced 53 individuals who had touch with an Ebola affected person within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
DAILY POST stories that the index case is a 42-year-old lady, the spouse of a Swiss Embassy workforce member, who returned from Uganda thru Addis Ababa on October 3 and evolved fever, diarrhoea and frame pains on October 7.
Addressing reporters on Sunday, the NCDC Director-Basic, Dr Jide Idris, mentioned the 53 number one contacts integrated 47 well being employees from the health center the place the affected person used to be handled and 6 folks.
Idris indexed the opposite contacts because the affected person’s husband, motive force, chef and 3 well being employees who attended to her within the emergency room.
Consistent with him, the company would pay each and every particular person in quarantine N100,000 every week when they complained that they may now not run their companies.
“We now have traced 53 Ebola contacts. We’re offering N100,000 to each and every particular person every week simply to handle their convenience and feeding, as a result of they had been complaining,” Idris mentioned.
The NCDC director-general additional mentioned that the contacts could be monitored for 21 days, whilst touch tracers would additionally monitor secondary contacts.
In the meantime, a suspected Ebola case in Rivers State examined damaging.
Idris mentioned the index affected person’s situation had stepped forward remarkably following an previous record of multiple-organ failure.