The state of Texas will officially be Ebola free at midnight, as the last of the 177 people who had contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan will complete their 21 day monitoring period.

A total of 177 people, from nurses and doctors who treated Duncan, as well as two health care professionals who got the disease from Duncan, were placed on several types of monitoring ranging from regular checks by health care professionals to quarantine, were placed on the watch list.

The final individual who will complete that 21 day monitoring on Friday is a hospital worker who handled medical waste on October 17th.

The two health care workers have been declared to be free of Ebola. Duncan died October 8.

"We're happy to reach this milestone, but our guard stays up," State Health Commissioner Dr. David Lakey said. "We reached this point through teamwork and meticulous monitoring, and we will continue to be vigilant to protect Teas from Ebola."

Lakey says Texas recently cleared the people who were being monitored in Texas because they were passengers on a flight from Dallas to Cleveland that one of the health care workers took before her diagnosis.

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control has monitored all travelers from countries in West Africa were Ebola is endemic.

A total of 50 of those individuals have returned to Texas, and one of them, a Central Texas nurse who cared for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is considered at 'some risk.' The rest are considered to be at low risk.