Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed that Nigeria has recorded one more case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), .
The latest victim, according to the Minister, is a fiancé of a primary contact of the virus.
While one more Ebola victim was being confirmed, another was declared successfully managed and discharged from the hospital.
The discharged patient, who was treated in Port Harcourt, is a sister of the late doctor who attended to the contact that fled Lagos for the capital of Rivers State.
The Minister added that the total number of confirmed cases of Ebola in Nigeria now stood at 19, with seven deaths - five in Lagos and two in Port Harcourt, the River State Capital.
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