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Kenya discharges five Ebola patients as no new infections are reported
Kenya discharged five Ebola patients on Tuesday after they tested negative and showed no symptoms.
Two patients remain in supportive care, while health officials say no new infections have been recorded in the past two weeks.
Kenya recorded its first Ebola case on Oct.
6, when a man who had traveled from Congo through Uganda tested positive and died hours later.
Eight of 135 identified contacts tested positive, and two people have died in Kenya, including the first patient.
The wider outbreak began in Congo in May and has caused more than 5,000 deaths, with over 10,000 cases reported.
Forty-six quarantined contacts were also released, and the final 52 are expected to complete quarantine next week.
Kenya will remain on high alert until 42 days after the final patient recovers before officials can declare the outbreak over.
Kenya discharged five Ebola patients on Tuesday after they tested negative and showed no symptoms.
Two patients remain in supportive care, and no new infections have been reported in the previous two weeks.
Health officials also released 46 people who had been quarantined as contacts of the first patient.
A further 20 contacts were released last week, while 52 are expected to complete quarantine next week.
Kenya remains on high alert and will not declare the outbreak over until 42 days after the final patient recovers.
- Who
- Kenya’s Ministry of Health discharged five Ebola patients and released 46 quarantined contacts.
- What
- Five patients who tested negative and showed no symptoms were discharged. Two patients remain in supportive care.
- When
- Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026.
- Where
- Kenya.
- Why
- The five patients tested negative for Ebola and showed no symptoms.
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The Ebola outbreak began in Congo.
Kenya recorded its first Ebola case after a man who had traveled from Congo through Uganda tested positive.
A further 20 contacts were released from quarantine.
Kenya discharged five patients and released 46 contacts; no new infections had been reported in the previous two weeks.
- Patients discharged
- 5
- Patients in supportive care
- 2
- Contacts released Tuesday
- 46
- Contacts expected to complete quarantine next week
- 52
- Kenya’s first Ebola case
- Oct. 6