Ebola virus is a ‘threat’ to UK says Philip Hammond, as Government calls emergency Cobra meeting in response to deadly disease
Wednesday 30 July 2014
Ebola virus is a ‘threat’ to UK says Philip Hammond, as Government calls emergency Cobra meeting in response to deadly disease
‘The Government is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the “threat” to the UK from the Ebola virus, the Foreign Secretary has said.
Philip Hammond said he would chair the meeting of the Cobra committee, which will begin coordinating Britain’s response to the spread of a disease that has killed more than 670 people in West Africa.
It comes after Public Health England’s global health chief told The Independent that officials have been briefing doctors, Government bodies and the UK Border Agency on what to do if Ebola arrives in Britain.’
