•LAWMA issues advisory to Lagos health facilities
Nearly 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in central Africa, a World Health Organisation (WHO) overview showed yesterday, amid mounting concern over the swelling scale of the epidemic.
The latest confirmation comes as the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) yesterday issued a precautionary advisory to health facilities and medical waste handlers across the state following reports of an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in parts of East Africa.
WHO, in its daily update on the situation yesterday, tallied 452 confirmed cases, including 82 deaths, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak was declared three weeks ago.
In neighbouring Uganda, meanwhile, it counted 19 confirmed cases, including two deaths.
