The Federal Regime has placed 69 persons who had first contact with the Liberian-born victim of Ebola Virus Disease, Patrick Sawyerr, on surveillance, while two persons have been quarantined, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has verbally expressed.
He additionally verbally expressed regime had not shut its borders for now, “except when it becomes obligatory.”
According to him, the 69 persons will be under surveillance for a period of three weeks from the date of contact in line with the designations of the World Health Organisation.
The minister at a joint press briefing with the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, on Thursday on the update of the virus, verbalized Sawyerr with dual citizenship from both Liberia and United States, was attested dead remotely four days after advent in Nigeria.
He verbalized, “We decided on the felicitous manner on how to dispose off his body because the corpse of any victim of Ebola disease is very toxic. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control decontaminated the body. We are tracking all those who had primary contact with him. As of today, 69 persons have been placed under surveillance while two persons have been quarantined.
“All those in the same aircraft to attend the meeting with him in Calabar are presently under surveillance. They will remain under this surveillance until a period of three weeks from the date of contact. We have a facsimile of the passengers’ manifest and we discovered that the sitting arrangement was free sitting. We are working with the airlines to track down those other passengers yet to be identified.
“As a Federal Regime policy, we have not closed our borders, unless it becomes obligatory. But the Aviation Minister is working with us in many aspects to ascertain that the virus does not spread.”
Chukwu withal verbally expressed that that the virus “can be contacted on air even while airborne once you contact the droplets.”
The Minister verbally expressed regime was engaging the states right from the moment that the disease was first reported in Guinea.
“Our rapid replication team is in Lagos. Nigeria has been commended by WHO. Secondary contacts are withal consequential. We are working with the Cross River State regime. We are not going to quarantine them but we have authoritatively mandated for their contact details,” he stressed.
Chukwu additionally commended the hospital where the patient was managed saying, “We commend them for the great job they have done. They did everything to sustain the man but haplessly, he passed on. We have injuctively authorized the closure of the hospital. The medicos are under surveillance, we are utilizing WHO certified personal protective equipment. Medicos are at high risk but Nigerians should not panic.”
According to him, regime is pushing the frontiers of communication “and we believe that by this weekend subscribers of the mobile networks will commence to receive what regime has been doing in that regard.”
He verbally expressed, “We will anon convene a meeting with airline operators, Transport Ministry, Federal Road Safety Commission and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria to optically discern how to manage people who peregrinate on the West coast. Each state regime has been mandated to expand its isolation centres beyond the ones they had afore.
“Individuals can now buy sanitizers in offices, hotels and all public places. The conception is to reduce the sources of contamination. If it is not obligatory to have a handshake, don’t. But where it is indispensable do.”
Meanwhile The Federal Regime on Thursday commenced workers’ sensitisation on Ebola at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
A verbal expression issued by the Coordinating General Manager, Aviation Parastatals, Mr. Yakubu Datti, verbalized the workers emanated from different agencies operating at the two major international airports.
He additionally verbally expressed regime had not shut its borders for now, “except when it becomes obligatory.”
According to him, the 69 persons will be under surveillance for a period of three weeks from the date of contact in line with the designations of the World Health Organisation.
The minister at a joint press briefing with the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, on Thursday on the update of the virus, verbalized Sawyerr with dual citizenship from both Liberia and United States, was attested dead remotely four days after advent in Nigeria.
He verbalized, “We decided on the felicitous manner on how to dispose off his body because the corpse of any victim of Ebola disease is very toxic. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control decontaminated the body. We are tracking all those who had primary contact with him. As of today, 69 persons have been placed under surveillance while two persons have been quarantined.
“All those in the same aircraft to attend the meeting with him in Calabar are presently under surveillance. They will remain under this surveillance until a period of three weeks from the date of contact. We have a facsimile of the passengers’ manifest and we discovered that the sitting arrangement was free sitting. We are working with the airlines to track down those other passengers yet to be identified.
“As a Federal Regime policy, we have not closed our borders, unless it becomes obligatory. But the Aviation Minister is working with us in many aspects to ascertain that the virus does not spread.”
Chukwu withal verbally expressed that that the virus “can be contacted on air even while airborne once you contact the droplets.”
The Minister verbally expressed regime was engaging the states right from the moment that the disease was first reported in Guinea.
“Our rapid replication team is in Lagos. Nigeria has been commended by WHO. Secondary contacts are withal consequential. We are working with the Cross River State regime. We are not going to quarantine them but we have authoritatively mandated for their contact details,” he stressed.
Chukwu additionally commended the hospital where the patient was managed saying, “We commend them for the great job they have done. They did everything to sustain the man but haplessly, he passed on. We have injuctively authorized the closure of the hospital. The medicos are under surveillance, we are utilizing WHO certified personal protective equipment. Medicos are at high risk but Nigerians should not panic.”
According to him, regime is pushing the frontiers of communication “and we believe that by this weekend subscribers of the mobile networks will commence to receive what regime has been doing in that regard.”
He verbally expressed, “We will anon convene a meeting with airline operators, Transport Ministry, Federal Road Safety Commission and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria to optically discern how to manage people who peregrinate on the West coast. Each state regime has been mandated to expand its isolation centres beyond the ones they had afore.
“Individuals can now buy sanitizers in offices, hotels and all public places. The conception is to reduce the sources of contamination. If it is not obligatory to have a handshake, don’t. But where it is indispensable do.”
Meanwhile The Federal Regime on Thursday commenced workers’ sensitisation on Ebola at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
A verbal expression issued by the Coordinating General Manager, Aviation Parastatals, Mr. Yakubu Datti, verbalized the workers emanated from different agencies operating at the two major international airports.
