Last Ebola patient in Kenya leaves hospital
11.11.2026
The last Ebola patient in Kenya was discharged from hospital on Wednesday, officials confirmed.
This means that all seven surviving patients are now considered to have recovered, and there have been no further infections among their contacts, Kenya's Health Minister Aden Duale told journalists in Nairobi.
In total, there have been nine cases of Ebola in the East African country.
For Kenya to be declared Ebola-free, 42 days - the equivalent of two infection cycles - must pass without any further cases. If no new cases area recorded, Kenya would be declared Ebola-free on December 23.
For a country where tourism is one of the main drivers of the economy, this is important news at the start of the peak travel season.
Kenya recorded its first recent case of Ebola on October 6. The man had fallen ill in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, travelled overland to neighbouring Uganda and flown from there to Kenya, where he died in hospital.
Later, one of his family members died; she had shown symptoms of the highly contagious disease in mid-October and was already in quarantine at that time.
Meanwhile, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains out of control in eight provinces. Just under six months after the outbreak was officially announced, health authorities in the Central African country have so far recorded more than 11,000 cases, of which around 5,400 have been fatal.
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