It’s Official! WHO declares Nigeria Ebola free

We reported earlier that The World Health Organisation (WHO) would declare Nigeria free of Ebola Virus Today. Well, it’s happened!

The World Health Organisation moments ago (Monday) declared Nigeria officially Ebola-free, after 42 days — or two incubation periods — without any new confirmed cases of the deadly virus.

“The virus is gone for now. The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated. This is a spectacular success story that shows to the world that Ebola can be contained,” WHO country representative Rui Gama Vaz said in Abuja.