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The arrival of a student from Togo with a fever caused panic and emergency measures were taken in the hospital in Famagusta.

According to the Northern Cyprus publication ''Havantis'' immediately after the 26-year-old student was taken to hospital, doctors decided to move him immediately to the hospital in the occupied part of Nicosia. The patient was admitted there after the imposition of strict quarantine measures. According to the director of the hospital, Ramadan Kamiloglu, the young man is being treated as a possible carrier of the Ebola virus, therefore he has been isolated in a special room.

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In statements given to Kibris newspaper the director of the hospital in Famagusta, Aykut Uretici, specifies that the student had visited the emergency room of the hospital where he informed the doctors that he had returned from Togo 20 days ago.

Until now, the hospital in the Turkish part of Nicosia has not been quarantined. The results of the blood and other tests performed on the patient are expected in the coming days.