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
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