British Ebola patient evacuated from DR Congo arrives at London hospital
Summary
A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while helping respond to an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been evacuated to the UK. The doctor is receiving specialist care in an isolation unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital, and UK health officials say the risk to the wider public is low.Key Facts
- The doctor’s identity has not been made public.
- The Department of Health and Social Care said the doctor arrived in the UK on a medical evacuation flight on Thursday.
- The patient is being treated in a high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
- The UK Health Security Agency said infection-control measures are in place and the risk to the wider public remains low.
- A humanitarian organisation sent the doctor to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help respond to the outbreak.
- The article says the outbreak has exceeded 10,000 cases and 5,000 deaths and has spread to Kenya and Uganda; Nigeria reported a case in Abuja last month.
- This is the first case in the current outbreak involving a British national who contracted Ebola.
- The UK had four previously confirmed cases: one linked to a laboratory needle incident in 1976 and three involving health workers who responded to the West Africa outbreak in 2014–2015.
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