Nigeria records its first Ebola case amid rapid regional spread

Nigeria is racing to trace the contacts of a confirmed Ebola case in the capital Abuja. The patient is reportedly a woman who first began showing symptoms on October 7th after traveling back from Uganda. Now, DR Congo was the center and is the center of an outbreak that has spread faster than ever before. Nigeria is now seeing its first infection linked to that outbreak of a rare Bunyan boyu strain. And that outbreak in DR Congo has claimed over 4,300 lives. Sam Olokoya tells us more about the plan in Nigeria. Sam, tell us more about the circumstances surrounding the reported infection in Nigeria. Well, a woman was said to have travelled to Nigeria from Uganda, and she was here for some days. And eventually, when they had tested her, it was discovered that she had Ebola. She's been ill for about three days before all these tests were carried. And have we had any more insight about what the authorities plan is in terms of trying to contain the risk? I think unlike the earlier outbreak with that, with West Africa and the situation where you have everyone like us within the border, this is quite a different circumstance, having this disease coming from across the continent. So no matter how authorities, and even Nigerians, are expecting it to happen, but in any case the first authorities try and trace who this woman had made the contact and as we've seen before you face everybody those people will have even had contact with other people so it's going to be a very epic task that we've had for life difficult to really continue Sam Olokoya unfortunately we're having a few difficulties with the line there but thank you so much for jumping on this so quickly to give us a bit of an insight into the reaction in Nigeria upon news of its first uh ebola outbreak um ebola case excuse me amidst the ebola outbreak that has been gripping DR Congo not too far away