Kenya: Kenya's Last Ebola Patient Leaves Hospital

What the report says

Kenya’s health ministry said the country has discharged its last remaining Ebola patient from a Nairobi hospital, a development reported on Wednesday and attributed by Deutsche Welle to Health Minister Aden Duale. The patient, identified in the report as the final person to receive treatment in Kenya’s outbreak response, will still undergo 21 days of quarantine, and officials said the country could be declared Ebola-free on December 23 if no further symptoms appear before then.

According to the published report, Kenya recorded nine confirmed Ebola cases in the outbreak linked to a traveler who returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ministry said all 135 contacts tied to the index case were traced and monitored, and that the cases stayed within a single transmission cluster without evidence of community spread. The report added that seven patients recovered and two died.

The broader regional context remains serious. The article says DR Congo continues to face its deadliest Ebola outbreak, which began in May and has caused thousands of deaths, while Nigeria has also reported a case linked to travel. The Kenya update matters because it suggests the country has contained the cluster for now, although officials are still waiting through the final monitoring period before declaring the outbreak over.