Monday 27 October 2014

US nurse quarantined in New Jersey under Ebola protocols to be discharged

A nurse who spent the last several days in a New Jersey hospital isolation room after returning from an Ebola assignment in West Africa is being discharged Monday, the state Health Department said in a statement.

According to NBC NEW YORK, Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined after arriving Friday at Newark Liberty International Airport under a new mandate issued earlier that day by Govs. Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo, has been "symptom-free" and will be transported to Maine, per her request, the agency said.


Hickox will be taken to Maine via "a private carrier," not by mass transit or commercial jet, the Health Department said.

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