African student covered in plastic paper bag for fear of Ebola in the Czech Republic

Ghanaian student being taken to hospital for check up

Czech police and hazmat suit-wearing doctors
have seized a traveler from Ghana at Prague's
main railway station. The man, suspected of
suffering from the Ebola virus, was wrapped in
black plastic by the authorities and taken
away.
The police dispatched some 15 officers from
the capital's rapid response squad to cordon
off the station's lobby, iDNES.cz news website
reported. The operation didn't interrupt the
normal operation of the railway station, but
probably scared passengers who were in the
vicinity.
Footage from the scene showed a man
wearing biohazard suit pushing a luggage cart
with a person sitting on it almost completely
covered by black plastic.
The target of the police operation was a
student from Ghana, who arrived in Prague
earlier Saturday evening. He managed to get
through medical screening at the airport and
was caught later at the railway station.
"We took emergency measures after receiving
a report that there was a man from Ghana at
the station possibly carrying Ebola," Prague
police spokesperson Andrea Zoulová said.
The health ministry later reported that the
student only had a cold. Ghana has not
reported any Ebola cases confirmed so far,
while the worst-hit countries are Liberia,
Sierra Leone and Guinea. Ghana is where the
UN mission to combat the outbreak is located.
The Czech Republic is among the countries
maintaining strict precautionary measures
over possible carriers of the deadly Ebola
virus arriving from Africa. Just a day before
the railway station incident a woman from
Nigeria was taken to hospital after falling ill at
the Karlovy Vary spa resort.
Samples taken from her were sent to a
German lab to check whether she had the
virus Ebola or another ailment.
The threat of Ebola has sparked fear and
paranoia among many people in countries
outside of Africa, with calls to halt airline
traffic with places affected by the epidemic.