NEWS UPDATE
Nigeria currently has no active Ebola case after the country evacuated its index patient to Switzerland, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Mohamed Janabi, said this in a post on X on Monday, shortly after Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, confirmed the patient’s evacuation from Abuja.
According to Mr Janabi, the patients were evacuated because they are both Swiss citizens. He said the patient was clinically stable after Nigerian health workers managed the acute phase of the illness. The Ebola patient in Nigeria and her contact, who is also her husband, were medically evacuated to Switzerland,” Mr Janabi said.
He said Switzerland would now take responsibility for the patient’s continued management. At the same time, the follow-up f her husband would be handled six days after Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in more than a decade.