A Lagos based medical doctor who treated the Liberian man that died few days ago of Ebola Virus has tested positive to the Virus, Nigeria’s Minister of Health said on Monday.
The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, who announced this to newsmen also said that eight persons that had first degree contact with the Liberian before he got to the hospital had also been quarantined and are under strict observation.
This will be the second report case of the virus in the Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city.
Liberian finance ministry employee Patrick Sawyer was found to be infected with the virus when he arrived in Lagos on July 20. He died in quarantine on July 25.
More details later.
