Officials at the Institut Pasteur had confirmed the case after testing samples taken from an 18-year-old Guinean woman, Health Minister Pierre N’Gou Demba said on RTI state television.“This is an isolated and imported case,” he said, adding that the patient was currently being treated in intensive care in Abidjan.Ivory Coast already had doses of the vaccine against Ebola, which go to anyone who had been in contact with her, such as the medical staff treating her.
Appealing for calm, he said the authorities had already activated an emergency plan which included the identification and surveillance of anyone who had come into contact with the patient. But a statement from WHO Africa on Saturday said: “There is no indication that the current case in Cote d’Ivoire is linked to the earlier outbreak in Guinea.
“It is of immense concern that this outbreak has been declared in Abidjan, a metropolis of more than four million people,” Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s Africa regional director, said in the statement.
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