TOH edition: Tuesday, 27 October 2026 · Health & Medicine
A safe return to family is possible: 20 Ebola contacts in Kenya go home after 21 symptom-free days
Reported by Capital FM News
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Kenya has released the first 20 contacts of its imported Ebola case after they completed 21 days of monitoring without developing symptoms. Health officials said they could safely rejoin their families, while 98 other contacts remained in quarantine and the outbreak response continued.
These homecomings show that people exposed to Ebola can complete monitoring and safely rejoin their communities, even while the wider response remains unfinished.
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