EBOLA: Lagos State Government identifies 59 contacts with dead Liberian victim

The Lagos State Government said on Monday that it had identified no fewer than 59 people who had contacts with Mr Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of Ebola Virus in the state.

Dr Jide Idris, the Commissioner for Health,  said at a news conference in Ikeja that the contact tracing became imperative to ascertain any possible transmission of the virus by the victim.

Idris said the identified contacts comprised  44 hospital and 15 airport contacts, including  the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia.

He said 20  of the contacts had been screened and that none of them had so far been found to be infected with the virus......but no Nigerian is infected yet...we thank God for that.

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