Barely 24 hours after Liberia’s health minister disclosed that the country had no Ebola cases and that health officials were in talks with the World Health Organization to secure access to a vaccine for the virus, the country’s first suspected case was reported at Redemption Hospital. Tests later conducted confirmed the case to be negative.

After recording three deaths, Guinean health authorities have declared an Ebola epidemic in N’Zérékoré prefecture, a region bordering the northern end of Nimba.