There were only two new cases reported on Friday – that does not mean we are past the peak of infections and there are likely to be more cases in the days to come.
But this is being seen as an encouraging sign.
The start of the outbreak was a super-spreader event – when an unusually large number of people are infected – at the nightclub Club Chemistry in Canterbury between 5 March and 7 March.
The incubation period, the time between infection and getting symptoms, is thought to be up to 10 days.
It means that, hopefully, there will not be many more cases linked to those nights in the club.
Around 10,000 people have been given antibiotics as part of the response, which should clear meningitis bacteria and stop those people becoming sick or spreading it further.
Will we start to see evidence the efforts to contain the spread are working, even though the long incubation period means it will take some time before anyone will declare this is over?
