Kenya has discharged its last Ebola patient, triggering a 42-day countdown towards being declared free of the virus.
The World Health Organization said the patient went home healthy on November 11. The country’s final 11 monitored contacts also completed their monitoring period on the same day, leaving no patients in treatment and no contacts in quarantine.
Kenya confirmed its first case 37 days earlier. The outbreak resulted in two deaths, while seven patients recovered. According to the WHO, if no new cases are recorded during the 42-day monitoring period, Kenya could be declared Ebola-free on December 23, 2026.
