The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has directed the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to ban 46 contacts of Nigeria’s confirmed Ebola affected person from flying for 21 days to stop the attainable unfold of the illness.
Keyamo directed the NCAA to inform home and worldwide airways of the restriction and guarantee compliance.
The minister disclosed this on Wednesday after a digital assembly with the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, to debate methods to stop additional unfold of the virus.
According to Keyamo, the 46 individuals comprise 44 people who got here into contact with the contaminated lady at a hospital after she developed signs, in addition to two members of her home employees.
He mentioned efforts had been ongoing to isolate the recognized contacts whereas well being authorities assess their publicity and decide whether or not they had contracted the virus.
The minister additionally directed the NCAA to right away notify all home and worldwide airways of the restriction.
In addition, Keyamo instructed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to strengthen Ebola surveillance and response measures in any respect worldwide airports throughout the nation.
The measures embody enhanced well being screening, temperature checks, monitoring of travellers’ histories, digital well being declarations and improved coordination with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC).
According to the minister, the measures observe earlier alerts about Ebola outbreaks within the area.
Nigeria confirmed its first case of Ebola virus illness within the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, triggering contact tracing and different containment measures.
The affected person, a lady who lately travelled from Uganda to Nigeria on a world flight, is receiving therapy in isolation at a personal hospital in Abuja.
LEADERSHIP had reported that well being authorities recognized 44 shut contacts of the affected person and commenced efforts to hint different individuals who may need been uncovered to the virus.
The 21-day no-fly restriction is meant to stop the recognized contacts from travelling by air in the course of the interval wherein signs of the illness might develop.
Ebola virus illness is a extreme sickness transmitted by way of direct contact with the blood or different bodily fluids of an contaminated particular person, or contaminated supplies.
The incubation interval usually ranges from two to 21 days, making contact tracing, monitoring and isolation necessary measures in controlling the unfold of the illness.
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