The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, traced 53 individuals who had contact with an Ebola affected person within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
DAILY POST experiences that the index case is a 42-year-old girl, the spouse of a Swiss Embassy workers member, who returned from Uganda by way of Addis Ababa on October 3 and developed fever, diarrhoea and physique pains on October 7.
Addressing journalists on Sunday, the NCDC Director-General, Dr Jide Idris, stated the 53 major contacts included 47 well being staff from the hospital the place the affected person was handled and 6 different folks.
Idris listed the opposite contacts because the affected person’s husband, driver, chef and three well being staff who attended to her within the emergency room.
According to him, the company would pay each individual in quarantine N100,000 per week after they complained that they may not run their companies.
“We have traced 53 Ebola contacts. We are providing N100,000 to each person per week just to maintain their comfort and feeding, because they were complaining,” Idris stated.
The NCDC director-general additional acknowledged that the contacts can be monitored for 21 days, whereas contact tracers would additionally monitor secondary contacts.
Meanwhile, a suspected Ebola case in Rivers State examined unfavorable.
Idris stated the affected person’s situation had improved remarkably following an earlier report of multiple-organ failure.
