Nigeria's disease control centre says samples from two people isolated in the north-east tested negative after two rounds of testing. The country's only confirmed case remains a Swiss woman evacuated last week.

Published 2 Nov 2026, 06:24 GMT

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Two suspected Ebola cases in north-eastern Nigeria have tested negative after two rounds of testing, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Sunday.

The two people had been isolated while officials traced and listed their contacts and ran laboratory tests, the agency said on X.

Nigeria's only confirmed case remains a Swiss woman who travelled to Uganda before returning to Abuja. It was the country's first Ebola case in more than a decade.

She and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland on October 26.

The outbreak is centred in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 5,000 people have died since it was declared in May. Kenya and Uganda have also reported cases.

There are no approved treatments or vaccines for the Bundibugyo species of the virus, which is behind the Congo outbreak.

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Nigeria: Two Suspected Ebola Cases Test Negative After Two Rounds of Tests

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