--- title: Liberia Releases Its Last Ebola Patient description: Liberia has some good news on Thursday: The country released it's las confirmed Ebola patient. canonical: https://time.com/3733531/liberia-last-ebola-patient/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-05T16:23:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:47.133Z article:section: Health og:title: Liberia Releases Its Last Ebola Patient (For Now) og:description: Liberia has some good news on Thursday: The country released it's las confirmed Ebola patient. og:url: https://time.com/3733531/liberia-last-ebola-patient/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3210c67925bfaf78/6987824f0b72e371b16de039/ebola-last-patient-liberia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4288 og:image:height: 2412 og:image:alt: Liberia Ebola West Africa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Liberia Releases Its Last Ebola Patient (For Now) twitter:description: Liberia has some good news on Thursday: The country released it's las confirmed Ebola patient. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3210c67925bfaf78/6987824f0b72e371b16de039/ebola-last-patient-liberia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Liberia Releases Its Last Ebola Patient (For Now) > Sponsored content. 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Getty Images photographer discusses his experience covering the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in Liberia_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 5, 2015 4:23 PM UTC  Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo surrounded by Chinese military health workers as she leaves the Chinese Ebola treatment center were she was treated for the Ebola virus infection outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia on March 5, 2015. Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo surrounded by Chinese military health workers as she leaves the Chinese Ebola treatment center were she was treated for the Ebola virus infection outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia on March 5, 2015. Abbas Dulleh\_AP by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 5, 2015 4:23 PM UTC Liberia released it’s last confirmed Ebola patient on Thursday. [According to the Associated Press](http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/bbd825583c8542898e6fa7d440b9febc/Article%5F2015-03-05-AF--West%20Africa-Ebola/id-995807202ab843a8b7dbadbfdeba2456), the patient was a 58-year old English teacher named Beatrice Yardolo who was undergoing treatment at a Chinese-run Ebola center in the capital of Monrovia. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed with TIME that the country currently does not have any confirmed patients in its Ebola treatment centers. Starting Thursday, Liberia can begin its count to 42 days of no new cases—two times the typical incubation period for the virus. At that point, Liberia can be declared Ebola-free. However, the situation is still fragile, according to the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Though MSF is not treating any confirmed patients in its Liberian Ebola treatment center, they still accept suspected cases. It’s quite possible that a person with suspected and later confirmed Ebola comes into their facility at any point. “This is an encouraging sign for Liberia. However, there is no room for complacency as the overall number of new Ebola cases in \[West Africa\] has risen this week,” MSF said in a statement sent to TIME. “From the outset, this outbreak has been characterized by its unpredictability and geographic spread. People move easily over the porous borders that separate Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, so until 42 days pass without a new case in any of the three worst-affected countries we need to remain vigilant.” MSF says serious gaps still persist in the response to the outbreak: “Significant improvements need to be made in contact tracing and surveillance, and we still need to improve regional coordination. Practical collaboration between surveillance teams based in each country need to be implemented as soon as possible to avoid importing new cases into areas considered Ebola-free.” So far a total of 23,983 cases of Ebola have been reported in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, including 9,823 deaths. 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