Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- Nigeria is tracing contacts and mobilising international support to contain the new Ebola case confirmed in Abuja, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has said.

Mr Pate outlined the government's response during an appearance on NTA's Network News at 9 p.m. on Tuesday.

The government had earlier confirmed that a woman who recently arrived in Nigeria on an international flight from Uganda tested positive for Ebola. She is in isolation and receiving care at a private hospital in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The minister said countries including Indonesia had offered support, adding that Nigerian public health officials were drawing on their experience of containing the disease...