Two other people in Britain have been tested for Ebola, one in Scotland and one in southwest England, said officials. Scotland’s first minister, Nicole Sturgeon, said a health worker who recently returned from West Africa has a “low probability” of having Ebola and that officials were operating on a “precautionary basis.” Another patient was isolated at Royal Cornwall Hospital in the city of Truro and is awaiting Ebola test results. On Tuesday, a woman became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola while in Britain. Her case was confirmed in Scotland, but she was transferred to Royal Free Hospital in North London, the hospital that treated Britain’s first Ebola patient, William Pooley.
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