Ebola crisis: Mali says it has no more cases

Mali's Health Minister, Ousmane Kone, says the country is now free of the Ebola virus, after 42 days without a new case of the disease.

The last Ebola-infected patient in Mali recovered and left hospital early December.

Latest figures show the three West African countries worst affected have all seen a decline in new Ebola cases.

According to latest UN figures, Sierra Leone and Guinea both recorded the lowest weekly total of confirmed Ebola cases since August.

Liberia, which reported no new cases for two days last week, had its lowest weekly total since June.

Mali recorded its first case of Ebola in October, when a two-year-old from Guinea fell ill and died.

BBC