Nigeria reports no new Ebola cases as DRC infections top 11,000
The NCDC says 28 contacts remain under watch, while the outbreak centred in eastern Congo has killed more than 5,000 people.
Nigeria has recorded no new confirmed Ebola cases in the 21 days since it detected an imported infection of the Bundibugyo virus in a traveller from Uganda, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The agency's director-general, Jide Idris, said in a statement that as of 9 November Nigeria had confirmed only one imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease. Twenty-eight contacts were still under monitoring and 34 others had completed their 21-day follow-up, the NCDC said. It said the 21 days since the first case was confirmed should not be confused with the individual monitoring period for each contact.
"A person identified as a contact does not necessarily have Ebola," the statement said, adding that follow-up lets health teams spot symptoms early.
Chemical & Engineering News reported that the patient was a woman who flew to Abuja from Entebbe, Uganda, on 20 October, spent several days in a private hospital and left on a medical evacuation flight to Switzerland on 26 October. The outlet said she was born in Uganda and is married to a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja. Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said on social media that she was in stable condition, according to the report, which put the number of people being monitored at 52.
Nigeria's case belongs to a wider outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease that the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared in May 2026. In its situation update of 6 November, the World Health Organization said Congo had recorded 10,668 confirmed cases and 5,198 deaths as of 3 November, across 67 health zones in eight provinces.
Outbreak News Today, citing figures to 9 November, put Congo's cumulative total at 11,042 confirmed cases and 5,387 deaths, a case fatality rate of 48.8 percent. It reported 52 new confirmed cases on 9 November, 30 in Ituri, 17 in North Kivu and five in Haut-Uele, with 33 confirmed deaths that day and 39 patients declared recovered. Ituri accounts for 69.6 percent of cumulative cases, the outlet reported. Channel Africa reported that Congo's cases had passed 11,000.
Kenya has recorded nine confirmed cases and two deaths, and the WHO said neither Kenya nor Nigeria had reported a new confirmed case since its previous update.
The NCDC also reported dengue fever in Sokoto and Zamfara states and chikungunya in Sokoto, and said it had deployed national rapid response teams, including entomologists from the National Arbovirus Research Centre in Enugu, to support case identification, laboratory work and mosquito control. It warned that not every fever is malaria, and urged states to prepare for Lassa fever and meningitis as the dry season and festive travel approach.
How the reports differ
Premium Times led with the NCDC statement and its contact count: 28 people still under monitoring and 34 who had finished their 21-day follow-up. Chemical & Engineering News led instead with the patient, reporting that she flew from Entebbe to Abuja on 20 October and was evacuated to Switzerland on 26 October, that Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate called her condition stable, and that 52 people were being monitored. Outbreak News Today carried the detailed Congolese figures to 9 November, including 52 new cases and 33 deaths in a single day, while Channel Africa reported only that DRC cases had passed 11,000. Premium Times cited a WHO update dated 6 November giving 10,668 cases and 5,198 deaths to 3 November, lower than the later totals.
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