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Marrakesh- Moroccan authorities have refused landing rights to a flight with a confirmed Ebola case on board, according to Spanish TV Channel Antennae.
The plane requested permission to land to stock up on fuel and food. The patient was a thirty-year-old doctor from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone’s second city of Bo, according to AFP.
The pilot, who was also denied permission to land in Portugal, managed to obtain permission to land in the Canary Islands for about 40 minutes. The flight then continued to Oslo where the patient was received at an isolation unit at Oslo University. Norway has increased its international aid for the fight against Ebola in West Africa to 184 million Kroner or 22.5 million euros, the AFP report said.
A New York Times (NYT) report explained that a patient, Manuel García Viejo, died in the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid on September 25, after being repatriated from Sierra Leone.
The Liberian man who was diagnosed with Ebola in Texas dies on Wednesday.
Extra measures in the US to deal with airport arrivals from Ebola stricken countries have been initiated in US airports according to the NYT. These include taking the temperature of passengers on arrival.
At least 14 Ebola cases have been treated outside West Africa in the current outbreak, according to the NYT. Most of those involve health and aid workers who contracted the disease in West Africa and were flown back to their home countries for medical treatment.
Experts stressed the need for supervision when nurses remove their protective clothing as even the slightest drop of perspiration from their clothing could prove fatal. Medical staff were urged not to touch their faces while undressing.
Royal Air Maroc has continued flights to Ebola affected areas as an expression of solidarity with its African neighbors. Nigeria and Senegal appear to have contained outbreaks so far.
