Two Nigerians – 27-year-old indigene of Abia State and
22-year-old indigene of Edo State – who reside in Freetown, Sierra Leone have
tested positive to the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The minister of state for health, Dr Khaliru Alhassan, who
disclosed this at the just-concluded National Council on Health Meeting, in
Uyo, Akwa Ibom, said details of the two cases will be made available when full
investigation of their status is concluded.
“According to information made available to the ministry
from health officials in Sierra Leone, one of them has been successfully
treated and is technically cured, and has returned to Nigeria while the other
one, has been placed in an isolation centre in Freetown”
Dr Alhassan said although the nation’s borders will continue
to remain open for the free movement of people and goods within the region,
government will continue to strengthen and sustain proactive vigilance and
surveillance at all its borders – air, sea and land.
He appealed to the countries already infected to strengthen
their surveillance and quarantine network to minimise escape from such networks
by people already put under surveillance to other non-infected countries.
He noted that the recent declaration of Nigeria as an
Ebola-free nation on Monday, the 20th of October, 2014 connotes that Nigeria’s
strategies to fight the outbreak had worked and that Nigeria is now not to be
listed among countries infected by the deadly virus any longer.
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