Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The 44 people identified as contacts of Nigeria's confirmed Ebola patient will remain in isolation for at least three weeks.

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, disclosed this Tuesday evening during an NTA interview, shortly after the ministry announced Nigeria's first confirmed Ebola case in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Mr Pate said authorities are currently treating the case as an imported infection and not community transmission.

"At this moment, we are treating it as an imported case, not community transmission," he said, adding that the situation could change if the virus begins to spread beyond the known contacts.

He said the 44 contacts, including healthcare workers...