Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital Lagos, bringing the total number of people with the virus to 10.

The minister said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

“The 10th case actually was one of the nurses who also had primary contact with the index case. When he (Sawyer) got ill, we then brought her into isolation,” the minister told a news conference in Abuja.

“We just tested her over the weekend. So, that’s what made it 10. So, between Friday and today we had one additional case. That brings it to 10 and the 10 includes the index case.”