Public Health England this morning announced the worker had now arrived in London as a precautionary measure for assessment and monitoring.
Patients who are at risk and come into Heathrow Airport are taken to the nearest hospital which is Northwick Park Hospital.
But a Public Health England spokeswoman was clear the patient did not have Ebola but had a potential low risk exposure to the virus through their work and as agreed with Australian authorities, was taken by private medivac to the UK for a 21-day incubation period.
“This individual has not been diagnosed with Ebola, does not have any symptoms of Ebola and their risk of developing Ebola remains low.
“They will be initially assessed in hospital and followed up as appropriate,” the spokeswoman said.
Professor Paul Cosford, PHE’s director for health protection and medical director, added: “We are confident that all appropriate public health actions are being taken to support this individual and to protect the public’s health”.
“The overall risk to the general public from Ebola remains very low. By volunteering this individual took a courageous decision to help those affected in West Africa and to prevent the spread of Ebola.”
Earlier this month, another Australian nurse was released from hospital after getting the all clear following her 21-day quarantine period.
A condition of Australia setting up a clinic in Sierre Leone was that should there have been a risk of infection, Britain would take that person for observation and or treatment.
The first nurse was thought to have inadvertently come into unguarded contact with a West African Ebola patient.