France’s health minister Stéphanie Rist has announced that the country’s first Ebola patient has recovered and been discharged from hospital.
The patient, a humanitarian doctor, returned to France on 23 June from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a major Ebola outbreak is ongoing. Rist said in a statement that the patient received close medical monitoring after his return, showed no severe symptoms, and has since been cleared to return home.
The DRC has been battling a new wave of Ebola since 15 May. The latest government figures show 438 deaths among 1,502 confirmed cases.
