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Liberia one month from being declared Ebola-free: official

Xinhua, March 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Liberia will be declared Ebola- free by the World Health Organization on April 13 if no new case is reported, a Liberian official said on Thursday.

Tolbert Nyenswah, head of Liberia's Ebola Incident Management System and assistant Minister of Health for Preventive Services, said Montserrado county, a hot spot of the Ebola virus, has gone 18 days without any new case.

He said other counties across the country have had no new cases for 21 days or longer.

Affirming the success of zero case made by the country, Lisa white, public information officer at United Nations Mission for the Ebola Emergency Response, urged people to stay alert as she said "Liberia's borders are open to countries that are still fighting against the virus". Endi