The last Kenyan patient who received treatment for Ebola has been discharged, the country's health minister Aden Duale announced.

The last Kenyan patient who received treatment for Ebola has been discharged, the country's health minister Aden Duale announced.

"The last Kenyan patient to receive treatment for Ebola, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, has been discharged from hospital. "He has fully recovered," the minister announced and published on the X social network the case he is managing on his own account.

Doel added that 11 other people who were under observation for three weeks (the incubation period of the virus) were also released from quarantine. If no new cases are reported by December 23, Kenya can declare itself Ebola-free, the health minister said.