Eight hours, volunteer actors in Newcastle and Hillingdon, a shopping centre, several ministers and wardrobes full of protective clothing – a test-run of how the UK would cope with an Ebola case.
Usifu Jalloh, a musician and playwright from Sierra Leone, tells Channel 4 News that Britain must prepare to tackle Ebola.
Kylie Morris
When I ask the President of Guinea whether he knew anyone personally who had died of Ebola, he tells me that for him, every death is personal. After all, he’s the president and these are his people.
Porton Down is where blood samples from suspected UK Ebola cases are sent – and the lab staff are the busiest they’ve ever been.
“This is where they handle live Ebola virus” – Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke visits a high-level virus containment lab at Porton Down.
A British man suspected of contracting Ebola has died in Macedonia as Downing Street announces “enhanced screening” at Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar train terminals.
David Miliband – head of the charity International Rescue Committee – tells Channel 4 News that the response to Ebola from western countries has been too late.
The president of the World Bank warns the ‘future of Africa is at stake’ as the World Health Organisation issues a 60-day deadline to get the Ebola epidemic under control.
The first person diagnosed with Ebola outside Africa, Thomas Duncan, dies at a Dallas hospital, as the British government announces it is sending 750 military personnel to west Africa.
With more than 3,400 people dead in west Africa and 7,500 infected in the latest Ebola outbreak, 300,000 people sign a petition demanding action… to save an infected dog.
A Spanish nurse has tested positive for Ebola after helping treat a missionary doctor who was repatriated to Madrid last month.
Oscar Bloh, head of an Ebola taskforce in Liberia, updates Channel 4 News on the situation on the ground – as says the country’s citizens do not trust the government to handle the crisis.
The deadly Ebola virus has the potential to spread across the world in just three weeks, infecting people from places as far apart as the United Kingdom and China, scientists warn.
An American patient with the Ebola virus has slipped into a critical condition, raising fears that US officials are not taking the disease seriously enough.
British government ministers, diplomats, aid agencies and, reportedly, philanthropists, gather in London to pledge funds to the “race against time” to tackle the ongoing Ebola crisis in west Africa.