First Sudanese national isolated in Hyderabad tests negative for Ebola

Key points

• A Sudanese national who had been placed in isolation at Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, after being detected with fever at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has tested negative for Ebola, confirmed Telangana Minister for Health C.
• Damodar Raja Narasimha on Friday (June 5).
• The samples were sent to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) which confirmed that the test result was negative for Ebola.
• “We will now inform the surveillance officer about the negative test result.
• The officer will decide the next course of action, including the patient’s discharge from isolation,” said Gandhi Hospital Superintendent Vani.