A fiancee of one of Patrick Sawyer’s contacts has been confirmed positive for Ebola virus disease.
She was flagged after the death of her fiance but tests on the deceased were “equivocal,” health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Monday morning.
“Further tests revealed he died from Ebola. He was quarantined but was not placed on active treatment,” Chukwu said.
His fiancee is the 19th confirmed case, 50 days since the virus came into Nigeria.
Fifteen of the cases are in Lagos, where 27 people are still on surveillance after some 339 people who completed a mandatory 21 days of observation were released.
Only four people have been confirmed positive for Ebola in Port Harcourt, 38 days after the virus first emerged there.
All cases confirmed are still “traceable” to Sawyer, the Liberian who brought the virus into Nigeria and died in a Lagos hospital.
