An American doctor who became the first person to be diagnosed in New York with Ebola has been cured of the potentially deadly virus.
Officials said he would be discharged from hospital tomorrow.
Craig Spencer's recovery means there are no more known cases of the virus in the United States.
"After a rigorous course of treatment and testing, Dr Craig Spencer, the patient admitted and diagnosed with Ebola disease virus at HHC Bellevue Hospital Center, has been declared free of the virus," the mayor's office said Monday.
The statement stressed that Mr Spencer, who was infected with Ebola and treated in New York after caring for patients in Guinea, "poses no public health risk."
33-year-old Mr Spencer was admitted to Bellevue hospital and tested positive for Ebola on 23 October.
New York is one of the busiest points of entry in the United States and the city has said repeatedly it is fully prepared for any possible case of the disease that has killed some 5,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
So far the United States has treated nine Ebola victims. Only one of them, a Liberian man who contracted the virus in his home country in West Africa, has died.
Patient tests negative for Ebola in Belfast
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that a person has tested negative for Ebola at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
The patient had been treated in an isolation unit prior to the test results.
In a statement this evening the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland confirmed that a patient was tested for the virus as a precautionary measure, having recently returned from an area affected by the virus.
The patient has been diagnosed with malaria and will continue to be treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
