Ebola: FG, LASG to Isolate 59 Persons Who Had Contact with Dead Victim - ThisDay

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Gboyega Akinsanmi, Damilola Oyedele and Dele Ogbodo 

Determined to contain the ease of the infection and the swiftness of containing those infected with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Federal Government in conjunction with the Lagos State Government have identified some 59 persons who had physical contact with Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of the disease last Friday in Lagos.

The decision was premised on the concern that leaving them in the midst of the people could trigger an unfettered spread of the infection to hitherto uninfected persons.

At a press conference jointly addressed by officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and the Lagos State Government yesterday, it was announced that 59 persons including the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, had contact with the 40-year-old late Sawyer believed to have imported the EVD to Lagos.

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