Morocco and Portugal refused to take a plane with Ebola patients

It was reported at LB.ua with reference to Correio da Manha.

According to the newspaper, the pilot asked for permission to land for refueling and was turned down.

In the end, the plane landed at the airport of Gran Canaria in Spain. By the order of Madrid, there were adopted special security measures – all the people in the cabin and cockpit were forbidden to go outside. The plane made the next stop in Paris. As a result, 32-year-old Norwegian, a member of the organization "Doctors without Borders", was taken to the Ullevaal University Hospital in Oslo, where she will be treated with an experimental ZMapp drug.

At the moment, according to the European Commission representative Frederick Vansan, in the EU there were identified eight cases of the Ebola virus. According to the World Health Organization, as of October 7, 2014 the number of victims of the Ebola virus in the world was 3338 people. The number of infected people is 7178.

It is to be recalled that October 6, in Europe there was confirmed the first case of Ebola virus. October 7 it was reported that scientists predicted the spread of the Ebola virus in Europe.