The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed that two suspected Ebola cases reported in Adamawa State examined negative after two rounds of laboratory testing, with no confirmed case recorded in the state.
The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, disclosed this in a press release dated October 31, 2026, following investigations carried out in collaboration with the Adamawa State Government by means of its Ministry of Health and Human Services.
The clarification comes after the Adamawa State Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) obtained a report in the early hours of October 30, following the identification of two people presenting with signs suggestive of Ebola in Yola.
The people have been subsequently remoted, whereas samples have been collected for laboratory testing and acceptable public well being measures have been initiated.
Ebola test outcomes and NCDC’s public well being advisory
The NCDC mentioned samples from the 2 people have been collected and subjected to laboratory testing to find out the reason for their sickness.
- “Fortunately, the samples turned out negative for EBV after two rounds of testing. Currently, there is no laboratory-confirmed Ebola case in Adamawa State.”
The company urged Nigerians to stay calm and keep away from circulating unverified experiences or hypothesis, advising the general public to depend on official authorities and public well being communication channels for correct data.
It additionally mentioned it could proceed working with the Adamawa State Government and different related stakeholders to watch the scenario and talk additional developments as verified data turns into out there.
Nigeria’s first Ebola case and phone tracing
Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in greater than a decade on October 20, 2026, after laboratory checks returned constructive for a girl who had travelled from Uganda to Abuja earlier in the month.
Following the affirmation, well being authorities commenced contact tracing, initially figuring out 44 individuals who had shut contact with the affected person, together with healthcare employees, caregivers and different people who could have been uncovered. The variety of recognized contacts was subsequently expanded as investigations continued.
Following the evacuation, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, mentioned Nigeria could declare the Ebola outbreak over as early as December 7, 2026, if no additional confirmed or possible cases have been detected.
He famous that the proposed date was topic to validation of the World Health Organisation’s 42-day monitoring requirement, with any extra confirmed or possible case probably restarting the countdown.
Ebola outbreak spreads throughout DR Congo and Kenya
The improvement in Nigeria comes amid a wider Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the place greater than 5,000 folks have died, in accordance with authorities knowledge.
- The outbreak, which started in May 2026, has unfold throughout eight of the nation’s 26 provinces, recording 10,351 confirmed cases and 5,026 deaths as of October 29. The case fatality fee stands at 48.6%, making it the deadliest Ebola outbreak in the nation’s historical past.
- Kenya has additionally recorded 9 confirmed cases, together with two deaths, with the infections linked to an imported case from the DRC by means of Uganda.
- The outbreak has additionally raised issues in regards to the administration of worldwide response funding.
Earlier, on October 16, 2026, Nairametrics reported that the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) raised issues over greater than $700 million in Ebola response funds that remained unaccounted for in the DRC.
The company mentioned worldwide donors had disbursed roughly $962 million to organisations implementing response programmes, however solely about 30% of these organisations offered monetary data throughout a verification train.
