Abuja - Nigeria now has 10 confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease with 177 persons under surveillance, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chuwku, said on Monday in Abuja.
Chukwu made the disclosure while updating newsmen on the efforts by the government to contain the disease.
"It has been 22 days since the virus first landed in Nigeria. As at today, 177 primary and secondary contacts of the index case have been placed under surveillance or isolation.
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"The 10th case actually was one of the nurses who also had contact with our index case; when she got ill we brought her into isolation, we just tested her over the weekend and she tested positive.
"That is what made it 10 cases since the last conference on Friday. Between Friday and today, we have one additional case that brings it to 10.
Chukwu disclosed that Nigeria was the first and only African country to have donated 3.5 million dollars for humanitarian aid and capacity building to the three Ebola affected countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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