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WHO was not told that Nigeria’s Ebola patient traveled to Congo, official says

DAKAR: The World Health Organization was not told that Nigeria’s Ebola patient had traveled to Congo, the WHO’s representative in Nigeria said on Thursday, after Uganda said she had visited ⁠the country. Nigeria’s government ⁠has said the country’s first Ebola case in more than a decade involved a Ugandan woman who had recently ⁠arrived from a trip there. Uganda’s health ministry said the woman had traveled to Congo, where the outbreak was first declared in mid-May. Pavel Ursu, the WHO repre