The World Health Organization on 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,” WHO country representative Rui Gama Vaz said in Abuja.
“This is a spectacular success story that shows to the world that Ebola can be contained.”
Nigeria’s official Ebola-free status comes after Senegal was given the all-clear on Friday, both countries are coming under close scrutiny from public health specialists looking to contain the spread of the disease around the world.
Cameroon, Nigeria’s neighbour to the east, shut its border as a precaution, but Abuja did not close its frontiers.Travel bans were not imposed, although leading carrier Arik Air did suspend its scheduled routes to Liberia and Sierra Leone, which with Guinea have been the worst affected by Ebola.
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