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A South African female passenger suspected of showing
symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease on arrival at the Murtala Muhammed Airport,
Lagos yesterday, has been quarantined at the isolation ward in Lagos.
Folswe Elizabeth Maria, on board Royal Air Maroc, from
Morocco was on transit and was said to have taken ill at the transit area of
the airport after using the toilet. The case was immediately reported to
officials of the Port Health Services who used the Infra-red Thermometre to
test her and discovered that she had high temperature. The passenger was later
taken to an isolation centre and kept under observation by Port Health
officials.
Further investigation revealed that Folswe had previously worked
in two Ebola Virus Disease-prone countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone, thus
fuelling suspicion that she could have contracted the disease.
The sources said: “The passenger, who is from South Africa,
came aboard Royal Air Maroc. She followed normal processes even at the Nigeria
Immigration Service. She is a transit passenger and she was at the transit
lounge where she went to drink and thereafter felt uneasy; went to the toilet
and on coming back, she fell ill. The case was reported to the Port Health Service
officials who immediately examined her.”
According to a statement signed by the Special Assistant on
Media and Communications to the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh; “the South
African national suspected of showing symptoms of Ebola at the international
airport (Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos) was quarantined at the
isolation ward in Lagos while her case is being investigated”.
We will keep you posted on further developments as they
unfold.
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