A doctor diagnosed with Ebola in France last month after conducting humanitarian work in the Democratic Republic of Congo has fully recovered and been discharged from hospital, French Health Minister StΓ©phanie Rist announced Saturday. Rist said the patient tested negative on two consecutive PCR tests and was able to return home safely. The physician had flown to France on June 23 aboard an Air France flight from the DRC, where he had been working in an area affected by the country's ongoing Ebola outbreak. He experienced only a headache during the journey but his condition worsened shortly after arrival, prompting immediate isolation under strict biosafety protocols. Rist described him as only mildly symptomatic throughout his illness, saying he received close medical monitoring and treatment in full compliance with health guidelines. Five fellow passengers identified as possible contacts were also placed under a 21-day home isolation as a precaution. The case marked the first Ebola diagnosis on French soil; two prior cases treated in France, in 2014, had been diagnosed abroad before patients were transported there for care. The diagnosis came amid a broader Ebola outbreak in DRC's northeastern Ituri province that has killed 277 people and infected more than a thousand since May, with additional cases reported in neighboring Uganda. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on May 17, with Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioning at the time that while such exported cases warrant vigilance, the global risk remains low, noting fewer than 30 Ebola cases have been detected outside Africa over the past 50 years. Tedros has separately warned that the response inside DRC continues to lag the outbreak's spread, citing inadequate contact-tracing, insufficient treatment capacity and ongoing security threats to health workers in the affected region.