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Adama Sankoh
dances with hospital staff
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There were celebrations
in Sierra Leone as the last confirmed Ebola patient was released from hospital
today starting a 42-day countdown to being declared free of the virus. Medical staff cheered and
danced as Adama Sankoh, 35, left hospital marking what is hopefully the
beginning of the end of the country's epidemic.
The
world's worst known Ebola epidemic has raged in West Africa for more than 18
months, infecting more than 28,000 people and killing more than a third of
them.
ITV report continues:
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Kenyan Doctor in protective overalls does a Usain Bolt gesture as Adama Sankoh
is discharged from hospital Credit: International Medical Corps
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Ms
Sankoh, who responded well to treatment and received her second negative test
result yesterday, marked her release by placing a paint hand print on the
survivors wall at the Mateneh Ebola Treatment Centremark in Makeni.
She
then danced her way down a red carpet with as guest of honour of a ceremony attended
by President Ernest Bai Koroma.
Ms
Sankoh is thought to have caught the virus from her son who was a victim of the
last known transmission chain in the country in the northern village of
Massessebeh.
The
entire community of more than 500 people was quarantined for three weeks as a
result to contain the infection.
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Ms Sankoh
adds her handprint to the wall of survivors at the treatment centre Credit:
International Medical Corps
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Sierra
Leone confirmed its first case in May 2014 and has since recorded the highest
number of cases in the region, although neighbouring Liberia has suffered more
fatalities.
Liberia was declared
Ebola-free in May but fresh cases appeared nearly two months later.
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