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One more person in Lagos has contracted Ebola and is currently receiving treatment at the isolation ward at Yaba, minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu confirmed on Monday evening.

This means Nigeria has had 17 cases in all while Lagos currently has two Ebola patients, one addition to the only one announced on August 26.

The minister made the confirmation while clarifying the opening speech he delivered earlier in the morning at the emergency meeting of the National Council on Health at the Barcelona Hotel, Abuja, where he gave the total number of EVD cases as 16.

Although the minister was mum on the identity of the latest victim, she is believed to be the wife of the doctor who died after attending to a victim of the virus in Port Harcourt.

Other confirmations made by the minister are as follows:

“Total number of confirmed EVD cases in Nigeria is 17 (including the index case).

“Total number managed in Lagos is 14. Number of cases successfully managed in Lagos and discharged is seven. Number of deaths in Lagos is five.

“Number presently on treatment in isolation in Lagos is two. Number of death in Port Harcourt (did not benefit from standard management) is one, the doctor who treated a secondary contact of Sawyer’s.

“Number of patients under treatment in Port Harcourt remains one. Number of patients ‘treated’ in Port Harcourt (no stand treatment) and fully recovered remains one.

“Total number of survivors in Nigeria (as of Monday) is 11. Total number of deaths in Nigeria (as of Monday) is six.”