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Nigeria declared Ebola free after 42 days with no new cases - WHO

Nigeria declared Ebola free after 42 days with no new cases - WHO

Monday, October 20, 2014, 17:10 GMT+7

ABUJA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Nigeria Ebola free on Monday, after a 42 day period with no new cases elapsed.

"Nigeria is now free of Ebola," WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the capital Abuja.

"This is a spectacular success story".

To be updated...

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