This Thursday, June 28, 2018, all people who have been in contact with the last confirmed case of Ebola have completed their 21-day follow-up period without showing signs of contamination. This is an important step in the response to the Ebola outbreak as it marks the beginning of the countdown to the announcement of the end of the ninth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The end of the epidemic will be declared when the country has spent 42 days, two incubation periods, without notifying a new confirmed case of Ebola.
This epidemic was the most complex and difficult epidemic the country had to deal with, mainly because it started in two rural areas at the same time and quickly reached a city of more than one million people. inhabitants directly connected to Kinshasa, our capital where more than 12 million Congolese live. However, thanks to rapid national and international mobilization and the Government's leadership in coordinating the response, we managed to control this high-risk epidemic in just seven weeks.
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