Ebola: Lagos Discharges Liberian Man From Quarantine

A Liberian national who was picked up at the airport and transported to the Isolation Unit of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, has been discharged  after he tested negative to the Ebola Virus Disease.
The unnamed Liberian was discharged on Tuesday, August 19 .

This was disclosed at a press conference held on Wednesday, by Jide Idris, the Lagos State Health Commissioner.

According to him, six people are currently in the hospital’s Isolation Ward, while the contact tracing team are combing every nook and cranny of the state in search of more suspected cases, adding that the chances of getting new cases are still high due to Lagos population.

Dr. Idris said: “Contact tracing activity is now vigorous and that’s the major area of containment so we are going to harp on it because that’s the only way you can prevent spread into the major population.”
“The contact tracing team are very active. They are proactive now. We are getting more vehicles now to get more teams, they are training more people to join the teams. Because, let’s not kid ourselves,
with our population, we don’t know, we pray not, but again we want to err on the side of caution.”

He therefore urged the public to report new suspected cases.
Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American, imported the deadly Ebola virus into Nigeria, last month, and so far five people have died.

Reports surfaced today from the Lagos State authorities that there are new suspected cases as five people with the symptoms of Ebola were  brought to the Yaba Mainland Hospital in Lagos and a Liberian was among the five.

Meanwhile, recent data from the World Health Organization on Ebola shows that there are now 2,240 cases confirmed and  1,229 recorded deaths since its outbreak in West Africa.