Kenya has no Ebola patients left in hospital. Health CS Aden Duale said on Wednesday that the last patient had been discharged from a Nairobi hospital, DW reported.
Duale said the final patient had 11 contacts. All of them will undergo 21 days of quarantine. If no one shows symptoms before December 23, Kenya will be declared Ebola-free on that date.
The health ministry said it had traced and monitored all 135 contacts linked to the index case. It credited stronger surveillance and contact tracing. According to the ministry, all nine confirmed cases stayed within a single transmission cluster. It said there was no community transmission.
Kenya's first case was reported on October 6. The patient was a Kenyan man who had recently travelled back from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Eastleigh Voice reported that the discharge marks a major step towards ending the outbreak in Kenya. The country is now counting down the required monitoring period.
The outbreak in Congo began in May. It is now the country's deadliest, with 5,387 deaths so far, according to DW. On Wednesday, Congo reported 11,000 cases of the disease.
Nigeria has reported one case, DW said. The patient had recently travelled from Uganda, which recorded a small cluster of cases.