contact with the previous woman died in the same town, and the number of traced contacts increased to 100. a day after, a third case was detected in butembo. on 3 may 2021, the 12th evd outbreak was declared over, resulting in 12 cases and six deaths. heightened surveillance will continue for 90 days after the declaration, in case of resurgence. guinea in february 2021, dr sakoba keita, head of guinea's national health agency confirmed that three people had died of ebola in the south-eastern region near the city of nzérékoré. a further five people also tested positive. keita also confirmed more testing was underway, and attempts to trace and isolate further cases had begun. on 14 february, the guinean government declared an ebola epidemic. the outbreak may have started following reactivation of a latent case in a survivor of an earlier outbreak. as of 4 may 2021, 23 cases were reported, with no new cases or deaths since 3 april 2021. a 42-day countdown period was started on 8 may 2021, and on 19 june, the outbreak was declared over. ivory coast on 14 august 2021, the ministry of health of cote d’ivoire confirmed the country's first case of ebola since 1994. this came after the institut pasteur in cote d'ivoire confirmed the ebola virus disease in samples collected from a patient, who was hospitalized in the commercial capital of abidjan, after arriving from guinea. however, on 31 august 2021, the who found that, after further tests in a laboratory in lyon, the patient did not have ebola. the cause of her disease is still being analyzed. 2022 on 23 april 2022, a case of ebola was confirmed in the drc in the equateur province. the case was a 31-year-old man whose symptoms began on 5 april, but did not seek treatment for over a week. on 21 april, he was admitted to an ebola treatment centre and died later that day. by 24 may 2022, there were 5 recorded deaths in the drc. on 15 august, the fifth case was buried, and the outbreak was declared over, 42 days after, on 4 july 2022. in september 2022, uganda reported 7 cases infected with the ebola sudan strain, but by mid-october the count had increased to 63. in november 2022, the outbreak in uganda continued - still without a vaccine. on 10 january 2023, the outbreak was considered over after no new cases had been reported for 42 days; the outbreak killed nearly 80 people. society and culture