A Nigerian nurse who treated Patrick Sawyer has died from Ebola virus, the government has confirmed.
The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, also confirmed that five more people tested positive of the virus.
All six who tested positive, including the late nurse, were in primary contact with the Liberian American, Mr. Sawyer, who died in a Lagos hospital late July after arriving from Liberia.
The nurse is the first Nigerian to die from Ebola.
The Nigerian government has asked the U.S. Centre for Disease Control to provide it with the experimental drug being administered on to the two American doctors infected in Liberia.
Both are said to be responding to treatment.
Mr. Chukwu, at a press briefing on Wednesday morning, demanded state governments to open up more isolation sites to contain people who might need to be treated or isolated.
He said the government would stop at nothing to contain the spread of Ebola.
Mr. Chukwu also said the 24 hours Emergency Operations Centre being put in place will be fully functional by Thursday. It will be headed
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