Escape Nurse Brought back to Lagos as Doctor tests Positive of the Ebola Virus.

Lagosians are in panic again as a doctor who also attended to late Patrick Sawyer at the First Consultant Hospital has been confirmed positive with the Ebola virus. Speaking at a news conference today, the Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the doctor is currently undergoing treatment at the quarantine centre in Lagos.

Prof Onyebuchi stated that some of the 169 secondary contacts of Sawyer were no longer under surveillance and have been released, having completed the incubation period of 21 days. 

The Minister also said the nurse who had escaped the quarantine center in Lagos and traveled to Enugu state has been brought back to Lagos with her husband in a special traveling ambulance. He stated thus:

'In Enugu yesterday, there were 21 secondary contacts with the nurse. But after investigations, there are only 6 secondary contacts now. The nurse who is newly wedded had no symptoms of the disease when she traveled to Enugu. She was transported back to Lagos in a special ambulance with her husband. Her husband is under quarantine now”.