A nurse who says she defied quarantine on behalf of all healthcare workers returning from fighting Ebola in west Africa is clear and free to begin the next chapter of her life.

A US nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone can move about as she pleases after a judge eased state-imposed restrictions on her.

A US nurse who vowed to defy a quarantine order for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients has left her home again.

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa said she plans to end her voluntary US quarantine and even stepped outside her home briefly.

Liberia may be seeing a decline in the spread of ebola, with falls in the number of burials and new admissions as well as a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.