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

DAKAR, Oct 22 (Reuters) The World Health Organization was not told that Nigeria s ​Ebola patient had travelled ‌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 ​travelled to Congo, where the ​outbreak was first declared in ‌mid-May. Pavel Ursu, the WHO representative, told an online press conference: The information supplied to ⁠WHO did not include travel to another country (other than Uganda). Ursu added that ⁠the ‌focus in Nigeria ⁠was now on containing ​the ‌viral infection and ​that the ⁠patient remained hospitalised, with her biochemical markers improving. (Reporting by Clement Bonnerot and Anait Miridzhanian;Writing by Alexander Winning;Editing by ​Robbie Corey-Boulet)