State, Nigeria's South-West region.
The Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, told a news
conference in Abuja on Thursday that a medical doctor who had primary
contact with the late Patrick Sawyer has been confirmed to have
contracted the Ebola virus disease.
This brings to 11, the number of people who have contracted the deadly virus.
This information has come on a day that a Nigerian woman sent to a
Singapore hospital isolation unit was reportedly diagnosed of Ebola.
The Chief Executive of the government hospital where the woman was
sent, Philip Choo, said that it was a false alarm and the woman had
been discharged.
The Straits Newspapers of Singapore said that the woman, in her 50s,
was believed to have flown into Singapore recently and arrived at a
hospital emergency department with a fever.
According to the World Health Organisation, the world's worst outbreak
of Ebola has claimed the lives of 1,069 people and there are 1,975
probable and suspected cases, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone.
Three people have died in Nigeria. There have been no confirmed cases in Asia.
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