A 19-day-old baby boy, Guinea's last known Ebola patient has recovered and been released from a treatment centre in the capital Conakry, a health official said on Monday.
The baby was born in the Nongo Ebola treatment centre to an infected mother who did not survive.
Sixty-eight people who had been in contact with the country's last cluster of patients and were deemed at risk of developing the haemorrhagic fever were released from quarantine on Saturday.
A spokesman for Guinea's Ebola co-ordination unit said two tests on the patient - a baby - had been negative.
More than 11,000 people has killed in West Africa due to this epidemic, which began in Guinea,
Neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia have already been declared Ebola-free.
If no new cases are reported in the next six weeks then, Guinea will be declared officially free of Ebola.
By Ruchi Singh
The baby was born in the Nongo Ebola treatment centre to an infected mother who did not survive.
Sixty-eight people who had been in contact with the country's last cluster of patients and were deemed at risk of developing the haemorrhagic fever were released from quarantine on Saturday.
A spokesman for Guinea's Ebola co-ordination unit said two tests on the patient - a baby - had been negative.
More than 11,000 people has killed in West Africa due to this epidemic, which began in Guinea,
Neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia have already been declared Ebola-free.
If no new cases are reported in the next six weeks then, Guinea will be declared officially free of Ebola.
By Ruchi Singh
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