Mali's Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Ousmane Kone, has announced about the end of Ebola fever. According to the latest data, 8500 people have became the victims of fever, six of which falls to Mali.

Kone thanked the local doctors, as well as their international partners. Ibrahima Soce Fall, the head of the Malian office of the United Nations Mission welcomed the funtions of the local authorities against Ebola who had got the positive result.

The last Ebola-infected patient in Mali recovered and left hospital in early December. 42 days have passes since, and there are no infected people, though doctors supposed 300 cases. None of them had any signs of infection, so Kone announced about the end of epidemic.

Latest figures show the three West African countries worst affected have all seen a decline in new Ebola cases. Sierra Leone and Guinea both recorded the lowest weekly total of confirmed Ebola cases since August. Liberia, which reported no new cases on two days last week, had its lowest weekly total since June.