Kenya has discharged its final Ebola patient and released quarantined contacts, starting a 42-day countdown to be officially declared free of the virus on December 23.
NAIROBI: Kenya has discharged its last Ebola patient, its health minister said on Wednesday, triggering a 42-day countdown to be declared free of the deadly disease.
The east African country recorded its first-ever case of Ebola on October 6 — a Kenyan man who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak in May and has since reported over 11,000 cases and 5,000 deaths.
