A 30-year-old woman was hospitalized in a German hospital on Tuesday after showing some symptoms that were consistent with the deadly Ebola disease.
It was gathered that visitors and staff at a Berlin employment office building were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street when the case was reported.
AFP reports that the Nigeria national, who fainted, claimed that she had recently been in contact with people infected with Ebola.
Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the northeastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were also taken to hospital for testing.
Berlin fire department spokesman, Rolf Erbe, said that because the patient came from “an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions”.
He said the testing in the city’s Charite hospital would take some time.
“The patient was isolated inside the ambulance; the staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer arrived and the necessary precautions were taken”, he added.
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