One of the nurses that attended to the Liberian infected with Ebola, Patrick Sawyer is dead.
The female nurse who was yet to be named died on Tuesday at Obalande Lagos.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu confirmed this to Journalists in Abuja this morning. Prof. Onyebuchi had on Monday disclosed that the Seventy people who had contact with the Liberian are under surveillance. Out of each, eight are already under quarantine.
It would be recalled that Sawyer died on 25 of July few days after of his arrival in the country. He was sighted at the airport with signs of the virus at the point of entry into the country.
He was quickly isolated and a test conducted on him later confirmed that he had Ebola.
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