The Skuld P&I Club provides updated of the countries/ areas with confirmed cases of EVD. The latest Ebola Situation Report from the WHO states that the total number of cases stands at 28,637, including 11,315 deaths (20 December 2015).
As of 23 November 2015, only Liberia remains on the list of countries on the affected areas list of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (29 December 2015), the UN WHO (28 december 2015) and International SOS (28 December 2015).
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms in the latest Ebola Situation Report that there have been no new Ebola cases confirmed in the week to 20 December 2015. Human-to-human transmission linked to the recent cluster of cases in Liberia will be declared to have ended on 14 January 2016, 42 days after the two most-recent cases received a second consecutive negative test for Ebola virus, if no further cases are reported.
In Sierra Leone, human-to-human transmission linked to the primary outbreak was declared to have ended on 7 November 2015. The country has now entered a 90-day period of enhanced surveillance scheduled to conclude on 5 February 2016.
Countries with initial cases or cases with no active transmission:
- Guinea (WHO declared Guinea to be free of Ebola on 29 December 2015)
- Sierra Leone (WHO declared Sierra Leone to be free of Ebola on 7 November 2015)
- Mali (WHO declared Mali to be free of Ebola on 18 January 2015)
- Nigeria (WHO declared Nigeria to be free of Ebola on 20 October 2014)
- Senegal (WHO declared Senegal to be free of Ebola on 17 October 2014)
- Democratic Republic of Congo (Not related to West Africa EVD outbreak. The Government of the DRC and WHO declared the Ebola outbreak over on 15 November 2014)
- Italy (WHO declared Italy to be free of Ebola on 20 July 2015)
- Spain (No active transmission)
- USA (No active transmission)
- United Kingdom (No active transmission, WHO previously declared UK free of Ebola on 10 March 2015)
Source: The Skuld P&I Club
