The West African country where the Ebola outbreak began has finally been declared free of the virus that had crippled the nation for the past two years.
Quartz Africa noted that on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced that Guinea is now declared free of the disease.
“WHO commends the government of Guinea and its people on the significant achievement of ending its Ebola outbreak,” Dr. Mohamed Belhocine a WHO Representative in Guinea, said in a statement.
Reuters reported that the announcement come 42 days after a patient tested negative for the virus and leaves Liberia as the last country that is still waiting to be declared Ebola-free.
The virus killed over 2,500 people in Guinea alone since the outbreak began in 2014 and has left around 6,200 children orphaned.
There have been more than 15,000 confirmed cases of the Ebola virus and more than 11,000 total deaths around the world, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of those fatalities occurred in West Africa.