The Lagos State government said on Monday that it had reached a total of 59 persons who had physical contact with Sawyer and screened 20, none of who tested positive for Ebola.
The other 15 came in contact with Sawyer at the airport and include three ECOWAS staff (driver, liaison and protocol officer), the Nigerian Ambassador to Monrovia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, two nursing staff and five airport passenger handlers.
“As at the time of this report 20 contacts had been physically screened for the virus. No one has tested positive to Ebola,” the commissioner said.
In related development, Lagos on Monday shut down and quarantined a hospital where a man died of Ebola in the first recorded case of the highly infectious disease in Africa’s most populous country.
Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on arrival at Lagos airport on July 20 and was put in isolation at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of a city that is home to 21 million people. He died on Friday.
“We have shut the hospital to enable us to properly quarantine the environment. Some of the hospital staff who were in close contact with the victim have been isolated,” Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris told Nigerian TV.
The hospital will be shut for a week and all staff monitored to ensure the virus has not spread, he added.
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