German Student placed in isolation in Rwanda

Rwanda has placed a German student with Ebola-like symptoms in isolation.

Samples from the suspected case have been sent for testing to an international accredited laboratory.

The patient is the first to be tested in Rwanda since the outbreak in West Africa.

Minister of Health, Agnes Binagwaho said the patient is a German medical student, who had recently spent time in Liberia.

He had a fever and malaria but for one hundred per cent security, Rwanda had quarantined him, until the test results which are expected within two days are out.

Ebola has claimed nearly one thousand lives in West Africa, in the worst outbreak in four decades, prompting the World Health Organisation to declare the epidemic a global health emergency.

Like other nations across east Africa, Rwanda said it has put in place measures against the deadly virus.

Surveillance systems and emergency management systems have been established and health workers have been trained across the country.

Source: NEWS24