A British national who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown back to the UK on an RAF jet, the UK's Department of Health has said.
The healthcare worker is being flown to London's RAF Northolt in a specially-equipped C-17 aircraft and will be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
The Briton is "not currently seriously unwell", a DoH spokesman said.
Health officials have stressed the risk to the UK remains "very low".
The DoH said the decision to return the patient to the UK was taken following "clinical advice".
Prof John Watson, DoH deputy chief medical officer, said the patient would be taken in a specially-adapted ambulance to a high level isolation unit - the only unit of its kind in the UK.
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