--- title: Ebola: World Marks First Week of No New Cases description: Last week marked the first week of no new Ebola cases worldwide since the outbreak began in March 2014, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/4065010/ebola-free-world-west-africa/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-07T17:59:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:04:53.112Z article:section: Health og:title: World Marks First Week of No New Ebola Cases og:description: This is the first Ebola-free week since March 2014 og:url: https://time.com/4065010/ebola-free-world-west-africa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3d728d8474270ff/6988674c2dce0123119e5ea2/gettyimages-490264322-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4256 og:image:height: 2394 og:image:alt: GUINEA-HEALTH-MUSIC-EBOLA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: World Marks First Week of No New Ebola Cases twitter:description: This is the first Ebola-free week since March 2014 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3d728d8474270ff/6988674c2dce0123119e5ea2/gettyimages-490264322-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # World Marks First Week of No New Ebola Cases > Sponsored content. 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People stand under a banner reading in French "Ebola - All together for victory" during a concert gathering artists from across Africa to celebrate Guinea reaching the final stages of the battle with the deadly Ebola epidemic on Sept. 26, 2015 in Conakry. Cellou Binani—AFP/Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 7, 2015 5:59 PM UTC Last week marked the first week of no new Ebola cases worldwide since the outbreak began in March 2014, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday. While the news is encouraging, there are still hundreds of contacts who are undergoing followup check-ins to make sure they stay healthy and the agency says the risk of transmission remains high. “Case incidence has remained below 10 confirmed cases per week for 11 consecutive weeks,” the WHO writes in a statement. “Over the same period, transmission of the virus has been geographically confined to several small areas in western Guinea and Sierra Leone, marking a transition to a distinct, third phase of the epidemic.” For a country to be declared Ebola-free, it must go 42 days without reporting a new case of the disease. The most recent case numbers from the WHO show that since the beginning of the outbreak there have been a total of 28,421 people who have been infected in the hardest hit countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia since the start of the outbreak. Among those infected, a total of 11,297 people have died. [_Read more: Here’s What U.S. Health Experts Learned from Ebola One Year Later_](http://time.com/4047029/ebola-lessons-one-year-later/) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I saw decent people losing their life to Ebola. [ MUSIC ] I work overtime. I work in the day. I work in the night. People will call me. Me. I have to be there, I have to take them to the center and today because of that a lot of them have their life back. When I went in he was lying in a pool of vomit. I picked him up. he kept vomiting so maybe it through that, mistakenly it seeped through somewhere in my PPEs and. I didn't, I didn't really care because I did not want him to lost his life, so when I checked him for what was happening my only concern was to drive him to the center that he, he received treatment. Day after then, I fell sick [ MUSIC ] I don't regret anything. Even if I lose my life in the process, I don't regret it. It's what God wanted to happen. I'm gonna go back and do my job. I wanna help save a lot of lives. Our people are dying. Everybody can't see a way. Now that I have built an immunity to Ebola, I'm gonna go in with full swing. 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