Key facts
- Health Minister Aden Duale said Kenya discharged its last Ebola patient on November 11, 2026.
- Kenya has reported nine Ebola cases since early October; one patient outside the first case died and seven recovered.
- The health ministry said no new infections had been recorded since October 19.
- The ministry said the last 11 contacts of confirmed cases left quarantine on November 11, 2026.
- Duale said arrivals from Democratic Republic of Congo will face a 21-day quarantine.
Kenya discharged its last Ebola patient on November 11, 2026, the start of a 42-day countdown after which the country can be declared free of the disease, Health Minister Aden Duale said.
Kenya has reported nine Ebola cases since early October, when a Kenyan man tested positive after arriving from Democratic Republic of Congo and died. Congo declared a large outbreak in May. The other eight cases were all contacts of that first case, according to the health ministry. One of them died and seven recovered.
The health ministry told a press conference that no new infections had been recorded since October 19, and that the last 11 people who had come into contact with confirmed cases left quarantine on November 11, 2026.
Duale said Kenya will now require citizens arriving from Congo to undergo a 21-day quarantine. Ebola has been reported in four countries across eastern, central and western Africa, the widest geographic spread of any outbreak on the continent to date, according to the report. The outbreak in Congo is the second-largest on record, with more than 11,000 cases confirmed.