More health workers hospitalised in Spain

Three more health workers in Spain have been admitted to hospital for monitoring for Ebola, including two doctors who had contact with a nurse infected with the disease.

The third new patient is a nurse who had contact with one of the two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola after being repatriated from west Africa for treatment.

"He is showing symptoms and a test has been carried out but we have not received the result yet," said a spokesman for the Madrid hospital.

Meanwhile, two people who had previously been under observation in hospital have been cleared of the disease and discharged.

In total, there are therefore seven people isolated in the Madrid hospital La Paz-Carlos III - the three new patients, the infected nurse, her husband and two other nurses.

The infected nurse, identified by Spanish media as Teresa Romero, had cared for the two elderly missionaries who died from the virus.

Officials say they are monitoring as a precaution about 50 other people, mostly health staff, who had been in contact with the infected nurse.

Earlier on Wednesday, Health Minister Ana Mato said there were no signs any of the woman's coworkers had also become infected.