600 paople were held in a building in Germany as a woman believed to be a Nigerian with Ebola-like symptoms collapsed in a job center.
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| Police officers and ambulance medical staff stand outside the jobcentre in the Berlin district of Pankow after a woman who showed Ebola-like symptoms collapsed there (Photo Credit: Fabrizio Benseh - Reuters) |
The woman was immediately rushed to a hospital but that didn't do the about 600 people in the building any good as the building was quickly sealed off for several hours by emergency services.
Germany's Bild says that the woman who fainted hailed from Nigeria and when she recovered, she admitted to recently being in contact with infected Ebola persons.
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| An ambulance carries the suspected Ebola virus carrier to Charite hospital (Photo Credit: Adam Berry - Getty Images) |
Hundreds of people who were in the same building with the woman in the north-eastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later queued and taken to hospital for Ebola tests.
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| Job seekers and employees trapped in the bureau as they await police instructions |
According to Rolf Erbe, who is Berlin's fire department spokesman, serious precautions had to be taken because 'the woman is from an are affected by the highly contagious disease.'
He also added that the tests which would be ran at Charite hospital would take some time.
"The patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken," Erbe added.
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| All clear: Those held in the jobcentre are finally freed after they are judged unlikely to have become infected |
According to a spokesman for Berlin's health authority, emergency services were quickly called after the woman who turned up at the job center bureau with a high fever had fainted forcing all 600 people who were in the same building with her to be quarantined.
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