No new cases of Ebola virus disease have been reported since 17 February and on 3 March the only person confirmed to have EVD in the last 21 days Figure 1 was discharged from an Ebola Treatment Centre after recovering and testing negative twice for the virus This is an important milestone in the outbreak However there is still a high risk of re emergence of EVD and a critical need to maintain response operations as outlined in the WHO recommended criteria for declaring the end of the EVD outbreak As of 3 March 2020 a total of 3444 EVD cases were reported from 29 health zones Table 1 Figure 2 including 3310 confirmed and 134 probable cases of which 2264 cases died overall case fatality ratio 66 Of the total confirmed and probable cases 56 n 1927 were female 28 n 973 were children aged less than 18 years and 5 n 171 were health care workers