Democratic Republic of Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga has announced that the Ebola outbreak in the country's Équateur province is over after 42 days without a new case.
The virus first appeared in April. Since then, there have been 54 cases: 33 people died as a result of contracting Ebola while 21 survived, the minister says.
People who had contracted the virus as well as others who may have been at risk were given an experimental vaccine.
This was the ninth Ebola outbreak to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo in a decade.
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