About eight people have been placed under surveillance in Delta State after being suspected of being in contact with a doctor killed by Lassa Fever.
They are members of staff of the hospital a medical practitioner died of the disease in Delta State.
The Delta State Commissioner for Health, Nicholas Azinge, gave this update, adding that authorities will be moving into the hospitals to carefully go through their records for more people that may have had close contact with the deceased.
He said it would help in tracing the source of the outbreak
This makes a total of 40 persons quarantined since the outbreak in the state.
On Monday, August 22, Dr. Azinge confirmed a fresh case of Lassa fever and the death of a medical doctor who resides and owns a hospital in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
