Federal Government has intensified nationwide Ebola surveillance, contact tracing and state mobilisation to forestall additional unfold following the affirmation of an imported case in Abuja.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this on Thursday whereas briefing journalists on the result of the National Economic Council assembly held on the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Professor Pate reassured Nigerians that there isn’t any trigger for panic, however harassed the necessity for vigilance and warning.
“Nigeria still has only one confirmed case, an imported infection recorded in Abuja, with 44 contacts currently under monitoring as authorities work to contain the threat”, he confirmed.
According to him, the federal government is strengthening coordination with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the World Health Organisation, WHO, and the Africa CDC, whereas mobilising states and well being services for fast detection and response to suspected instances.
The Minister urged Nigerians to stay calm, keep away from spreading misinformation and adjust to public well being advisories, together with sustaining good hygiene and promptly reporting suspected signs.
He added that routine day by day actions ought to proceed in step with official steerage, whereas residents stay alert and cling to additional public well being directives which may be issued.
Pate stated as surveillance and call tracing proceed, authorities’s precedence stays containing the imported case and stopping additional transmission.
He emphasised that the important thing message to Nigerians is to not panic, however to remain vigilant.
