The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says the N10 billion emergency intervention fund released by the Federal Government was not meant for Ebola alone, but to strengthen the country’s preparedness and response to several epidemic-prone diseases.
Nigeria must rise to the challenge of containing the newly imported Ebola virus disease before it becomes another national health emergency.
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Mr Jide Idris, has said the N10 billion emergency intervention fund approved by the federal government was intended to strengthen preparedness for Ebola and other endemic diseases, including Lassa fever.
A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the country’s first patient in more than a decade got infected, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said.
GENEVA, Oct 24 — The Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman, and the wife of a staff member at Switzerland’s embassy in Abuja, Bern said Friday.
The government of Switzerland confirmed on Friday that a woman identified as the first patient in Nigeria diagnosed with Ebola Bundibugyo in the context of an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a Ugandan-born Swiss national who had not recently visited the DRC.
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called for enhanced regional preparedness and immediate release of pledged funds to avert further spread of the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak.
Six Nigerian nationals arrested in South Africa in 2021 are set to be handed to FBI and Secret Service over romance scams targeting 100-plus women.