2 of 4 new Ebola suspects in Spain test negative

Madrid: Two of four new Ebola suspects admitted to hospitals in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests, officials said Friday.

The government's Ebola monitoring committee said on its official Twitter account that the two were a person who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid's airport Thursday and a person who travelled in the same ambulance used to hospitalise infected Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero on October 6. Both had developed fevers. They will be tested a second time within 72 hours.

Two others, a missionary who came down with a fever after returning from Liberia and a Red Cross health worker who recently worked with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, were also to be tested.

Health Ministry spokesman Fernando Simon said Romero's infection was almost under control and there was increasingly less reason to be worried.