Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses the media upon his arrival in Kinshasa, on May 28, 2026. Photo: AFP
The World Health Organisation on Friday announced the first recovery of a confirmed Ebola patient in the outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“The DRC has said that on May 27, a patient recovered and left the hospital and has been discharged into the community,” the WHO’s Anais Legand told reporters.
She said it marked the “first” among patients who had been confirmed to have Ebola, but stressed that she expected there had been other recoveries among people who have not yet received laboratory confirmation of test results.
“This is the first one” to be discharged from a care centre “following two negative tests”, she said.
