An individual who had been in quarantine as a result of contact with Dr. Craig Allen Spencer, the New York City doctor who was diagnosed with Ebola after treating patients in Guinea, no longer poses a public health threat, according to medical officials.
The individual was one of three people placed under quarantine as a result of their contact with Dr. Spencer, 33, in the days before he was diagnosed with Ebola on October 24.
New York City health officials refused to specify to BuzzFeed News whether the individual in question is Dr. Spencer's fiancée or one of his two friends who were also quarantined.
"The individual poses no public health threat and is showing no symptoms," according to a joint statement from the NYC Department of Health and the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation. "This person's daily movements in New York City will no longer be restricted, and the individual will be assessed twice each day by Health Department staff."
Officials say another acquaintance was released over the weekend, leaving one person still in quarantine in New York City.
Dr. Spencer himself "continues to show improvement," according to health officials. He is said to be in a stable condition, but remains in isolation at Bellevue Hosptial Center.
Meanwhile, health officials say they are actively monitoring 357 people in New York City for signs of the highly contagious disease, the vast majority being travellers who arrived in the city in the past three weeks from one of the three Ebola-affected African countries.
However, that list also includes the emergency staff who transported Dr. Spencer to hospital, as well as the lab workers who conducted his blood test.
"All of these individuals are being monitored out of an abundance of caution, and none are showing any symptoms," health officials said.