A female healthcare worker, confirmed as having Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, has arrived at the Royal Free Hospital in west London for better treatment.

The patient was admitted to hospital early Monday morning after feeling unwell and then was placed into isolation after returning to Scotland via Casablanca of Morocco and London Heathrow, arriving at Glasgow Airport late Sunday night.

According to BBC, she left Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow early in the morning, with six police cars accompanied two ambulances as she was taken to Glasgow Airport.

The patient was then moved to the Royal Free Hospital. Her bed there is surrounded by a tent, with access restricted to specialist medical teams. British nurse William Pooley, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone earlier this year, was successfully treated at the same facility.

A statement on the hospital's website said: "The Royal Free London can confirm that it is expecting to receive a patient who has tested positive for Ebola. The patient will be treated in the high level isolation unit (HLIU)."

British health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who chaired an emergency Cobra meeting on Monday evening, said the government was doing "absolutely everything it needs to" to keep the public safe.

Public health experts have emphasized that, the risk to others is extremely low as the patient having been diagnosed in the very early stages of the illness. Endit

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