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Nigeria must observe a strict 42-day watch before declaring an end to its Ebola incident, the World Health Organisation warned on Wednesday. The directive follows the recent medical evacuation of the country’s index case, a 42-year-old Ugandan national married to a Swiss diplomat, to Geneva for treatment. WHO Executive Director of Health Emergencies Chikwe Ihekweazu…
Port health authorities, state ministries of health, and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention have once again reactivated contact tracing machinery, screening points, and port-of-entry quarantine protocols. The directives follow fresh regional alerts over emerging viral outbreaks across West and Central Africa. Thermal cameras hum at international arrival halls in Lagos and Abuja….
Ebola: Nigeria Monitors 54 Contacts as NCDC Warns Outbreak Not Over Nigeria is monitoring 54 primary contacts linked to its confirmed Ebola case, even after the index patient and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the country is not yet out of the woods….
Federal health authorities are scrambling to set up specialised treatment centres across border states after the tally of traced Ebola contacts climbed to fifty-three on Sunday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention activated its emergency incident management system under Coordinating Minister of Health Muhammad Ali Pate following the arrival of an infected traveller…
Kenya recorded its second fatal Ebola infection on Saturday, testing the state’s capacity to contain its first domestic outbreak of the haemorrhagic disease. The health ministry confirmed that the victim, a 65-year-old woman, caught the virus from an infected male relative who arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo before dying in Nairobi on 5…
Federal health authorities in Abuja urged Nigerians on Wednesday to maintain calm and vigilance after laboratory tests confirmed an imported case of Ebola disease in the Federal Capital Territory. The patient, an international air passenger who arrived in the country from Uganda, remained inside a private medical clinic in the capital city for several days…
Health authorities in Cross River State have confirmed a new case of COVID-19, marking the first officially reported infection in the state since 2022. The patient, a 53-year-old Chinese national employed in Akamkpa Local Government Area, is currently receiving care at a state isolation and treatment centre. Officials report that the patient is responding well…