Nigeria has confirmed 10 cases of Ebola, the latest being a doctor who treated the Liberian man who brought the disease to Lagos, and four have died, the health minister said on Thursday.
Earlier, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said there had been 11 cases, but later that this had been an error owing to "double counting in the process of communicating the additional death from the operational centre in Lagos".
The doctor had been one of those involved in the initial treatment of Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian who collapsed at Lagos airport on July 20, Chukwu told a news conference in the capital Abuja.
"The fourth death recorded today was a Nigerian nurse who participated in the initial management of the index case," his subsequent statement said.
"Eight (others) are still alive, more than half of them are doing very well and actually showing signs of recovery ... under treatment," Chukwu said.
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