Seoul, Jan 2 (IANS) A South Korean medical worker will be transported to Germany from Ebola-hit Sierra Leone as he is suspected of being infected with the virus, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday.
The health worker is believed to have been infected by the virus while collecting blood from an Ebola patient, Xinhua reported citing the ministry.
He is one of the 10 medical personnel dispatched by South Korea last month to an Ebola clinic in Goderich, near Sierra Leong’s capital Freetown. South Korea plans to send 30 medical personnel in three batches to the Ebola-hit West African nation by February.
The unidentified worker will be transported to Germany Saturday.
The worker has not shown any external injury or symptoms of infection yet, but will be monitored at an isolated unit of the unspecified hospital for 21 days, the maximum incubation period of the virus.