Mali Ends Ebola Quarantines
           
Mali has released from quarantine the last 13 people being monitored for Ebola, and the country could be declared free of the virus next month if no further cases are recorded, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
Mali has recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to the latest WHO data published on Monday, has killed some 6 841 people in neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst epidemic of the viral haemorrhagic fever.
Mali's last infected patient recovered and left hospital last week, while the remaining individuals who came in contact with an infected person finished a mandatory 21-day quarantine at midnight on Monday.
"There is no more contact-tracing. No sick person is being treated, and there is no suspected case of Ebola," Abdoulaye Cisse, a spokesperson for the WHO, told Reuters.