Scotland now has its first case of Ebola, as a female healthcare worker was diagnosed with the disease soon after flying home from Sierra Leone. According to BBC, the woman is now in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital, and all possible contacts with the case are being investigated.

News Daily reports that the patient flew back to Scotland's largest city late on Sunday night. She was on a British Airways flight via Casablanca in Morocco and London's Heathrow.

In a recent statement, the Scottish government stated, "All possible contacts with the patient are now being investigated and anyone deemed to be at risk will be contacted and closely monitored... However, having been diagnosed in the very early stages of the illness, the risk to others is considered extremely low."

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also commented, "Apart from other passengers on the flights and obviously the hospital staff since this patient's admittance to hospital, she, the patient is thought to have had contact with only one other person in Scotland since returning to Scotland last night and that person will also be contacted and given appropriate reassurance."

The patient will soon be transferred to a high-level isolation unit in the Royal Free hospital in London. Recent reports suggest that her health is not in great jeopardy. BBC News reports that Alisdair MacConachie, of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said, "She's being managed in an isolation facility by staff who are comfortable managing patients in such a situation. She herself is quite stable and is not showing any great clinical concern at the minute."

So far, Ebola has claimed 7,842 deaths around the world and has infected more than 20,000 people. Sierra Leone accounts for almost half of the world's known cases with a count of more than 9,000.