{"id":1453,"date":"2026-10-26T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/after-patients-evacuation-is-nigeria-ebola-free-who-clarifies\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:31:14","slug":"after-patients-evacuation-is-nigeria-ebola-free-who-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/after-patients-evacuation-is-nigeria-ebola-free-who-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"After patient\u2019s evacuation, is Nigeria Ebola-free? WHO clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"715\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/After-patients-evacuation-is-Nigeria-Ebola-free-WHO-clarifies.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"After patient\u2019s evacuation, is Nigeria Ebola-free? WHO clarifies\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/After-patients-evacuation-is-Nigeria-Ebola-free-WHO-clarifies.jpg 715w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ebola-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Ayobami Okerinde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria currently has no confirmed case of Ebola following the medical evacuation of the country\u2019s index patient to Switzerland, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not declared the country Ebola-free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO Nigeria office said in a post on X on Monday that public health officials were continuing to monitor people who might have been exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWHO has not declared Nigeria Ebola\u2011free. Nigeria currently has no confirmed case of Ebola following the medical evacuation of the index patient to Switzerland. Health officials are closely monitoring 52 contacts who may have been exposed,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnder the International Health Regulations, a country can only be declared Ebola\u2011free after a 42\u2011day countdown following the last confirmed case testing negative twice for the virus or, in this situation, after the evacuation of the confirmed case. This period is then followed by heightened surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clarification came hours after reports were making rounds that Nigeria had been declared Ebola-free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/ebola-fg-confirms-evacuation-of-nigerias-index-patient-husband-to-switzerland\/\">Vanguard<\/a> earlier reported that Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, on Monday confirmed the departure of the Swiss patient and spouse via an air ambulance to Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pate said the patient had improved clinically and was stable, conscious and communicating before the evacuation. He, however, cautioned that her improved condition did not necessarily mean she was no longer infectious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, said<a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/nigeria-has-no-ebola-cases-after-patients-evacuation-to-switzerland-who\/\"> the Nigerian medical team<\/a> had successfully managed the patient through the acute phase of the illness and stabilised her condition before the evacuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NCDC earlier on Sunday said that 53 contacts linked to the case had been identified and followed up. They included health workers, domestic staff and the patient\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/after-patients-evacuation-is-nigeria-ebola-free-who-clarifies\/\">After patient\u2019s evacuation, is Nigeria Ebola-free? WHO clarifies<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ayobami Okerinde Nigeria currently has no confirmed case of Ebola following the medical evacuation of the country\u2019s index patient to Switzerland, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) has not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}