Ebola is gone and dead in Nigeria.... WHO

World Health Organization, WHO, has declared Nigeria free of the deadly disease Ebola. This was made known by the organization’s representative in Nigeria, in the person of Rui Gama Vaz in Abuja. Sticking with the directive of the body that if after six weeks (42 days), if no fresh instances are found in the country and so the country is free of the disease.

From left Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu and Country Representative of World Health Organization, WHO, in Nigeria celebrating the exit of Ebola in Nigeria, yesterday

The outgoing Health minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, described this as a major threat during his stay in office, and Nigerians as a whole was able to carry-out the disease. Applause from a former Vice President and also a Presidential Aspirant under the canopy of the All Progressive Congress, Atiku Abubakar; he commends the effort of Federal, Lagos and Rivers State governments over the issue of Ebola. And it will say a good picture around the country over the misconception of the external universe.

Citing from WHO statement, “Today, October 20, Nigeria reached that 42-day mark and is at once considered free of Ebola transmission,” and really recommends the rapid response to it outbreak then, which brought close to an end to the quandary. And not in catching those who lost their spirits in the combat of the epidemic, the physicians and nursemaids and the affected ones.