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| Patrick Sawyer -Died of Ebola Virus |
Nigerians are deadly scare over the possibility of some Nigerians who have close contact with Patrick Sawyer , the Liberian man who died of Ebola virus in Lagos
The fear was raised by the disclosure made on Monday 27 July at the Lagos State Government Secretariat in Alausa, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, by the Lagos Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who disclosed that 59 people had contact with the late Sawyer, which include the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia
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“So far, a total of 59 contacts have been registered consisting 44 hospital contacts (38 healthcare workers and six laboratory staff) and 15 Airport contacts, comprising 3 ECOWAS staff-driver, Liaison, and Protocol officer, Nigerian Ambassador to Monrovia, two nursing staff and five Airport passenger handlers.
“As of the time of this report, 20 contacts had been physically screened of which 50% are type 1 contact and 50% had had type 2 contact. Airline manifest has not been provided by the airline at the time of this report and therefore the precise number of passenger contacts is yet to be ascertained, especially as two flights were involved (Monrovia-Lome and Lome-Lagos),” he disclosed.
