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NCDC: 62 contacts complete Ebola monitoring without secondary transmission

Verified: 8 outlets in 5 countries have reported this story since Nov 13, 3 of them from Nigeria.

📍 Abuja, NG·🕐 1d ago·8 outlets

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says 62 contacts linked to Nigeria’s imported Bundibugyo Virus Disease case have completed 21-day monitoring without secondary transmission. The NCDC Director-General, Dr Jide Idris, said this at a news conference in Abuja, on Friday. He said the last contact was discharged after completing the mandatory monitoring…

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✓ Verified · 8 outlets

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Daily Trust· National ↗Africanews· International ↗Al Jazeera· International ↗The Straits Times· National ↗Vanguard News· National ↗The Citizen· National ↗

The story so far · 8 reports · · 5 countries✓ Verified Nov 13, 2:37 PM UTC

3 outlets from Nigeria, where the story is: Daily Trust, The Punch, Vanguard News · how we count

Nov 13, 2:12 PM UTCFirst report
Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission straitstimes.com ↗
Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 13, 2:37 PM UTC · +25 min
Nov 13, 3:49 PM UTC+2 h
Nigeria Ebola patient contacts complete 21-day monitoring without signs of infection africanews.com ↗
Nov 13, 3:57 PM UTC+2 h
Ebola: Nigeria records zero secondary infections as 62 contacts exit monitoring vanguardngr.com ↗
Nov 13, 8:39 PM UTC+6 h
Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission aljazeera.com ↗
Nov 13, 9:16 PM UTC+7 h
Ebola: All 62 contacts test negative after monitoring – NCDC vanguardngr.com (again) ↗
Nov 14, 5:37 AM UTC+15 h
Ebola: WHO hails Nigeria as 62 contacts complete monitoring, no new cases recorded punchng.com ↗
Nov 14, 7:36 AM UTC+17 h· you’re reading this
NCDC: 62 contacts complete Ebola monitoring without secondary transmissiondailytrust.com ↗
Nov 15, 6:51 AM UTC+41 h
Nigeria completes Ebola monitoring of 62 contacts without detecting new infections thecitizen.co.tz ↗

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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same NCDC announcement that 62 Ebola contacts completed monitoring without new infections, with consistent figures.

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cross checkconfirmed90%

[Claude] All three reports cover the same NCDC announcement that 62 Ebola contacts completed 21-day monitoring without secondary transmission, and none contradict Report 1's facts.

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