The Federal Government on Wednesday warned Nigerians not to be carried away with the news that the country now has only one established case of the Ebola Virus Disease, saying “we are still at risk.”
It also said despite the suspension of the strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Medical Association, the recent suspension of residency programmes in hospitals was still in force.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
Chukwu advised Nigerians to avoid moving from panic to euphoria since that could constitute an obstacle as the nation tackles the virus.
He explained that while the country could be said to have been successful in containing the disease, it would be wrong to say the disease had been eliminated.
The minister pointed out that the fact that all the primary and secondary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer, had been traced, did not stop any other infected person from other parts of the country from bringing the virus again.
The minister said by the definition of the World Health Organisation, one case constitutes an epidemic for Ebola and Lassa Fever because they are deadly.
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