{"id":49145,"date":"2026-10-27T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49145"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:58:54","slug":"kenya-releases-first-group-of-ebola-contacts-from-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-releases-first-group-of-ebola-contacts-from-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya releases first group of Ebola contacts from quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya has released from quarantine the first group of people who came into contact with its index Ebola patient, marking a milestone in containment efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The 20 people completed 21 days of monitoring without developing symptoms and are in good health, Health Ministry Director-General Patrick Amoth said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya has reported nine Ebola cases so far, with two deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The remaining seven patients are stable and receiving treatment, adding that 98 others still in quarantine would be released in four waves beginning\u00a0next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Health Ministry Director-General Patrick Amoth says that this is a milestone worth celebrating and a reminder that the work is not yet done,&#8221; he has urged Kenyans to welcome them home and maintain vigilance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The outbreak spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it was declared in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya&#8217;s first case died in Nairobi on October 5, with Nigeria saying its first case in over a decade appears closely related to Kenya&#8217;s index case after both flew out of Uganda&#8217;s Entebbe airport on the same day in earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49145","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ebola \u2060outbreak","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49147,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49145\/revisions\/49147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}