Doctors in Nigeria’s most populous city are assessing five new suspected cases of the Ebola virus, a top medical official said, two days after the health minister expressed confidence the outbreak in the country may soon end.
The new patients were admitted to a hospital in Lagos on Aug. 19 and are being monitored in isolation wards, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, told reporters yesterday. Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Aug. 19 that Africa’s biggest economy may be Ebola-free within a week as the number of people being treated for the virus had dropped to two.
“They are not exposed to the public and the public is in no danger from the two,” Chukwu said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Trish Regan and Shannon Pettypiece…
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