An elderly woman has contracted the deadly Ebola virus and has been isolated a quarantine centre in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, has tested positive for the disease.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, made these developments known in Port Harcourt on Monday.
The unidentified elderly woman, contracted the virus in Good Heart Hospital, the health facility where Iyke Enemuo, the doctor who treated a Nigerian ECOWAS diplomat, Koye Olu-Ibukun, died last week.
However, The two others – a doctor and a pharmacist – who were earlier under watch have tested negative. Even though they had been released from the centre, another round of tests will however be carried out to reconfirm their status.
The doctor and the pharmacist are members of staff of Sam Steel Clinic, a health facility founded by Enemuo.
Enemuo whose sister, Chinyere, was taken to the quarantine centre, will be buried next week.