Health officials in Britain are trying to find passengers who sat near a nurse who has been diagnosed with Ebola after flying back to Scotland from Sierra Leone.
The nurse is now being treated at a specialist unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has said he did not believe that Ireland was facing any immediate danger as a result of the confirmed case in Scotland.
He said it was important to point out that the aid worker who contracted the virus did so in Sierra Leone and not in the UK.
He added that the latest information was that there was no Irish person, or no one travelling on to Ireland, on any of the flights concerned.
The minister said he has spoken to the Chief Medical Officer this morning and that Irish authorities are in contact with their UK and European counterparts on a daily basis on the matter.
The nurse, who had been working with Save The Children in Sierra Leone in west Africa, returned to Glasgow on Sunday night and started feeling unwell.
The health worker was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in Britain.
She arrived at the capital's Royal Free Hospital, Britain's designated Ebola treatment centre, in an ambulance accompanied by several police vehicles.
Confirmed case of Ebola in Scotland
"We think so far certainly the clinical care for her is going as expected," said Paul Cosford, Director for Health Protection at Public Health England, the government body handling Britain's response to Ebola, on BBC radio.
"The agreement we have across the country is that the right place for treatment for people with Ebola is at the Royal Free in their specialist facilities... it's a clinical decision."
The hospital's 'high-level isolation unit' will allow doctors to treat the patient while she lies inside a plastic tent, limiting the scope for the disease, which is transmitted by contact with bodily fluids, to be passed to medical staff.
The National Health Service worker flew from Sierra Leone to Glasgow late on Sunday on a British Airways flight via Casablanca in Morocco and London's Heathrow.
She was diagnosed with the deadly virus yesterday after developing symptoms overnight and was initially treated at Scotland's Gartnavel Hospital.
"I'm satisfied... that the procedures, the protocols, the things that we've been practising now for months and months have now kicked in," Health Minister Jeremy Hunt said. Hunt led a meeting of the government's emergency response committee late yesterday.
Scottish authorities have said the illness was diagnosed at an early stage, meaning the risk to others was considered extremely low, but they were investigating all possible contacts with the patient.
British screening procedures
Britain began screening passengers arriving from West Africa for symptoms of Ebola in October as part of its preparations for a case of the disease on British soil. Mr Hunt said at the time that he expected to see "a handful" of cases arriving in Britain.
Earlier this year the Royal Free Hospital successfully treated another British aid worker, William Pooley, who was flown home for treatment after being diagnosed with the virus in Sierra Leone.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a second patient in Scotland was being tested for the virus after returning from West Africa, but had a low probability of having the virus, having had no known contact with infected people.
A third person was undergoing tests for the Ebola in Cornwall, England and was being treated in an isolation unit, a statement from Public Health England said.
The results of that test would take at least 24 hours, the statement said.
The World Health Organization said yesterday that the number of people infected by Ebola in the three West African countries worst affected by the outbreak - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea - had passed 20,000, with more than 7,842 deaths so far.
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