MOSCOW, December 30 (Sputnik) — Another patient is about to be tested for Ebola in Scotland, the BBC reports.
The patient, a female healthcare worker who has recently returned from West Africa, has been taken from a youth hostel she was residing in to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by ambulance personnel wearing protective suits.
The patient is unlikely to have had any contact with carriers of the disease, the BBC notes.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said that the patient is being treated as a ‘low probability’ case, the news agency adds.
The Independent notes that a second patient is currently being examined for possible Ebola symptoms at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. A spokesperson for the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust refused to provide any details about the patient, confirming only that he or she is being treated in isolation, the newspaper adds.
The BBC points out that the tests are being conducted after a first Ebola case was confirmed in England. The infected, a health worker who returned to Scotland from Sierra Leone, was flown from Glasgow to a special treatment facility at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
