Switzerland’s foreign ministry has confirmed that the woman who has tested positive for Ebola in Nigeria is the wife of a Swiss diplomat.
The woman, a 42-year-old Ugandan-born national who lives in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, tested positive for the virus on 20 October, becoming the country’s first confirmed Ebola patient in more than a decade.
They both travelled to Uganda earlier this month. Her husband is currently in isolation but has not developed any symptoms, according to the Swiss foreign ministry.
The ministry told reporters that all 25 staff at its embassy in Nigeria were in good health and did not need to isolate.
The ministry said the woman had spent about a week at a private clinic in Abuja with symptoms before her diagnosis.
It believes she contracted the virus while travelling in Uganda, although health authorities have yet to establish the source of her infection.
Uganda borders Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 4,600 have died in the country’s most deadly outbreak of Ebola.
Two people died in Uganda shortly after the outbreak began in May but it has been declared free of Ebola since August.
