The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Democratic Republic of Congo free of the Ebola virus after no people showed symptoms for two incubation periods since the last case during the outbreak, Reuters says.
Having reached that 42-day mark, the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered free of Ebola transmission," a WHO statement on Friday said.
WHO commends the Democratic Republic of Congo's strong leadership and effective coordination of the response that included rapidly mobilising an expert response team to Jeera County, identifying and monitoring contacts and organizing safe burials, it added.
The outbreak, the seventh in the former Zaire since the virus was identified there in 1976, was separate from the one spreading in West Africa, and killed 49 out of the 66 people infected.
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