Nigeria: Ebola - Patrick Sawyer Escaped Quarantine

8 August 2014

It has been revealed that the Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, who travelled to Lagos from Monrovia and became Nigeria's index case for the Ebola virus was actually under surveillance by the Liberian health authorities, even though he still managed to board a flight to travel.

The Minister of State II for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, said this while relaying a conversation between Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Nigeria's Ambassador to Liberia, Ambassador Chigozie Oby-Nadozie.

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