Many people had fared the worse when the virus first hit the nation barely three months but Nigeria as being able to contain the virus amidst under-funded and ill-equipped health system.
The World Health Organization is expected to declare Nigeria free on Monday following the fact that the nation as not recorded a single case of Ebola n the last 42 days – or two incubation periods of 21 days.The achievement is being welcomed, with no end in sight to the disease that has claimed more than 4,500 lives this year, most of them in West Africa, and mounting fears about cases around the world. But there were warnings against any premature celebration, with complacency still a risk and luck considered to have played a part in containing the outbreak. “Nigeria acted quickly and early and on a large scale,” John Vertefeuille, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, told AFP. “They acted aggressively, especially in terms of contact-tracing.
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