The
World Health Organization is reportedly making plans to declare Nigeria and
Senegal Ebola-free
The
World Health Organization
(WHO) is likely to officially declare Nigeria
Ebola-free later this week, Daily Mail reports.
The
standard period for declaring an outbreak over is 42 days and upon attainment
of this, Nigeria and Senegal
will be officially recognized as being free of the disease.
Both
countries were lauded for their efforts in combatting the disease after an earlier announcement that they had basically contained it.
Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu declared the
country Ebola-free on September 24, 2014.
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