Kwara State Chairman of Ebola Viral Disease Control Committee, Prof. Sunday Opabola, today said that a suspected case of Ebola disease has been reported in the state in a seven-month old baby who had come with his parents from Ibadan for a visit at Ilorin after one of those taking care of him had returned to Ibadan from Lagos.
Addressing journalists in Ilorin on Thursday, he stated that it had not yet been confirmed that the child is infected with Ebola and that there is no confirmed case of the disease in the state as being rumoured, adding that residents of the state should not panic.
He stated that the government has temporarily closed down the private hospital where the baby was initially admitted.
He added that samples from the patient had already being taken for tests at Lagos University Teaching Hospital and another unnamed testing centre in Lagos.
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