Finally it is confirmed. The doctor was infected after he treated a primary contact of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American who brought the dreaded disease to Nigeria. His death brings the number of Ebola fatalities in Nigeria to 6.
The total number of recorded cases had risen by two to 15, the other one being the wife of the doctor who is showing Ebola symptoms and whose test results are awaited. Nwomeh said 70 contacts of the doctor were now under surveillance in Port Harcourt.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has taken 1,552 lives out of 3,069 known cases in four countries and “continues to accelerate”.