The Rivers State Government has confirmed that three persons have died, while more than 200 others are currently under observation following the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.
Also, the Lagos State government said on Saturday that it was monitoring at least 107 persons suspected to have been in contact with an index case of Lass fever at Ahmmadiyyah Hospital and at Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
Speaking on Saturday, the state Commissioner for Health in Rivers, Dr. Theophilus Odagme, said about 50 people who had contact with the first reported two cases could be out of observation because they had not shown symptoms of the disease.
Similarly, at a press conference in Lagos, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said that the private hospital which the Lassa fever patient was taken to had been temporarily shut down while its 15 patients as well as 25 health workers in the clinic are being observed.
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