00:00The doctor was brought to the UK from the DRC on a medical evacuation flight in a joint effort between
00:08the UK and DRC governments and their international health partners.
00:13He is being treated in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
00:18He was thought to be working on an Ebola outbreak, which figures published on the UN website show has led
00:25to more than 5,100 deaths.
00:28Ebola has a high fatality rate, with past outbreaks causing death in up to 90% of infected people.
00:37There have only been four confirmed cases of the virus in the UK previously, one in 1976 resulting from a
00:45laboratory needle incident,
00:47and three involving health workers who were responding to an outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2015.
00:54The Royal Free Hospital has a high-level isolation unit, run by a dedicated team of doctors, nurses and laboratory
01:04staff.
01:05The team has previously treated adult patients with Lassa fever and Ebola.
01:12Access to the unit is restricted.
01:14It includes a special tent with controlled ventilation that still allows care to be provided by NHS staff.
01:22All the air leaving the unit is cleaned, so there is no risk to anyone inside or outside of the
01:28hospital.
