Six weeks at a goal. The world Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Nigeria free of Ebola as no new cases of Ebola were reported in six weeks.
WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz, speaking in the capital Abuja, said it was a “spectacular success story”.
Nigeria won praise for its swift response after a Liberian diplomat brought the disease there in July.
The outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone
Nigeria has joined Senegal as countries where Ebola case(s) had been reported in the west African region but now officially declared free of Ebola by WHO.