The medical doctor who handled the case of the late Mr. Patrick Sawyer, the victim of Ebola virus, who flew into Nigeria from Liberia two weeks ago, is dead.
Before news of his death spread on Monday, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, had confirmed to journalists in Abuja that the doctor had tested positive to the virus.
The Minister said eight other people, who came in contact with the late Sawyer, have now been quarantined, with two of them showing what appears to be symptoms of the disease.
According to Chukwu this new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died. The name of the doctor was not named.
