One of the nurses that attended to the Liberian-American that imported the Ebola Virus Disease into Lagos, Nigeria, Patrick Sawyer, has tested positive to the virus.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, confirmed this to newsmen on Monday.
Sawyer died on July 25, few days after his arrival in Nigeria.
One of the nurses who attended to him also died a few days later.
The Minister of Health said the nurse’s husband is now under surveillance alongside 176 others.
According to Onyebuchi, the number of those that have tested positive to EVD in the country is now 10.
Two of those 10 have died – Sawyer and thenurse – while other eight are receiving treatment.
President Goodluck Jonathan last week declared the outbreak of Ebola in the country a national emergency, voting N1.9 billion in emergency funding.
Earlier, the World Health Organisation had also declared the EVD an international emergency.
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