Nigeria, Oct. 25 -- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has urged public and private healthcare facilities nationwide to strengthen infection prevention measures and isolate suspected Ebola cases before laboratory results are available.

The NCDC Director-General, Jide Idris, issued the directive during a media briefing in Abuja on Sunday, stressing that healthcare workers must promptly identify and report suspected cases without waiting for laboratory confirmation.

The call comes five days after Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in more than a decade, involving a 42-year-old Ugandan-born woman living in Abuja who recently travelled to Uganda.

Officials confirmed her infection on 20 October, prompting the f...