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  "id": 19543964,
  "title": "Kenya discharges last Ebola patient",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-discharges-last-ebola-patient-19543964",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-11T20:22:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch Nigeria",
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    "url": "https://punchng.com/kenya-discharges-last-ebola-patient/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Kenya has discharged its last Ebola patient, with the country expected to be declared free of the disease on December 23 if no new cases emerge. The final patient had 11 contacts who would also undergo a 21-day quarantine period, while all 135 contacts linked to the index case had been traced and monitored through strengthened surveillance and contact-tracing measures. The country's first case was reported on October 6, involving a Kenyan man who had recently returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 8,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Kenya discharges last Ebola patient, beginning countdown to Ebola-free declaration",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-discharges-last-ebola-patient-beginning-countdown-to-ebola-free",
        "published": "2026-11-11T09:08:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Standard Kenya",
        "title": "Kenya begins 42-day countdown to Ebola-free status",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-begins-42-day-countdown-to-ebola-free-status",
        "published": "2026-11-11T09:16:11.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "KBC",
        "title": "Kenya discharges last patient, begins countdown to Ebola-free status",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-discharges-last-patient-begins-countdown-to-ebola-free-status",
        "published": "2026-11-11T09:59:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Capital FM Kenya",
        "title": "Kenya begins 42-day countdown towards Ebola-free status after discharging last patient",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-begins-42-day-countdown-towards-ebola-free-status-after",
        "published": "2026-11-11T10:56:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "KahawaTungu",
        "title": "Kenya discharges last Ebola patient as 42-day countdown to end outbreak begins",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-discharges-last-ebola-patient-as-42-day-countdown-to-end",
        "published": "2026-11-11T10:58:22.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Kenya discharges last Ebola patient, awaits disease-free status",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenya-discharges-last-ebola-patient-awaits-disease-free-status",
        "published": "2026-11-11T15:34:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "DW News",
        "title": "Kenya's last Ebola patient leaves hospital",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/kenyas-last-ebola-patient-leaves-hospital",
        "published": "2026-11-11T16:16:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}