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| The infected woman being transferred in the early hours of Tuesday morning. |
A health worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone has arrived at Royal Free Hospital,a specialist treatment centre in London.
The woman, who travelled to Glasgow via Casablanca and London Heathrow, was taken to the Royal Free Hospital.
She is understood to have been flown to RAF Northolt in a military plane after leaving
Glasgow in a convoy.
Passengers on flights she took to the UK are being traced, but officials say the risk to the public is very low.
The Scottish health worker, left Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow just after 03:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Six police cars accompanied two ambulances as she was taken to Glasgow Airport. She has been taken to an isolation unit at the north London hospital from the RAF base in west London.
The UK health secretary said NHS safety measures in place were working well.
Jeremy Hunt, who chaired an emergency Cobra meeting on Monday evening, said the government was doing "absolutely everything it needs to" to keep the public safe.
"We are also reviewing our procedures and protocols for all the other NHS workers who are working at the moment in Sierra Leone," he added.
The Scottish Ebola infected patient, who had been working with Save the Children in Sierra Leone, arrived in Glasgow on a British Airways flight on Sunday but was placed in an isolation unit at Gartnavel Hospital on Monday morning after becoming feverish.
The woman arrived at the Royal Free Hospital in north London just before 08:00 GMT
Under UK and Scottish protocol, she was moved to the high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital. Her bed there is surrounded by a tent, with access restricted to specialist medical teams.
UK nurse William Pooley - who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone earlier this year - was successfully treated at the same facility.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government Resilience Committee on Monday, said the risk to the public was "extremely low to the point of negligible".
She added the patient was thought to have had direct contact with only one other person between arriving in Glasgow and attending hospital on Monday.
A second health worker who returned from West Africa recently is being tested in Scotland for Ebola, it has emerged.
But Ms Sturgeon said there was only a "low probability" this person also had the disease as they have not had direct contact with anyone infected with Ebola.
source BBC