A British ebola patient may be flown from Sierra Leone to the UK for treatment, it has been reported.
Government sources say the patient could be flown back to RAF Northolt near Heathrow before being taken to the Royal Free Hospital, in north London.
The hospital is the only hospital in Britain equipped to treat an ebola patient and contain the virus, it has been reported.
The Royal Free Hospital is the only British hospital ready to treat ebola A source told the Sunday Telegraph that no final decision had been taken on whether to fly the patient home.
But a medical assessment would take place on Sunday to see whether a flight home would be suitable.
It is the first confirmed case of a British person catching the tropical infection, which kills up to 90% of people who contract it.
Earlier this month British Airways suspended flights to Sierra Leone, along with Liberia, for weeks over fears about the outbreak.
The Foreign Office has advised Britons to "carefully assess" whether they really need to travel to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Since the current outbreak began earlier this year, there have been 2,615 confirmed cases and 1,427 deaths.
Medical charity Medicine Sans Frontieres has warned infections are spreading faster than authorities could handle.
The charity added that it could take six months to bring the crisis under control.
Ebola is spread by contact with an infected person's bodily fluids, such as sweat and blood, and no cure or vaccine is currently available.
Professor John Watson, Britain's deputy chief medical officer for England, insisted the risk to the public remained "very low".
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