US Ebola patient arrives in Germany as Trump administration bars Americans in DRC from commercial flights to US

A US national infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been transferred to a Frankfurt hospital for treatment, while the Trump administration has blocked American citizens in the DRC from flying commercially to the United States.

• The German health ministry confirmed that a US national infected with Ebola in the DRC landed in Frankfurt overnight and was admitted to the city's university hospital.
• The World Health Organization's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the patient is a humanitarian worker who had been in Bunia, Ituri province, the center of the DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak.
• The Trump administration has placed US citizens in the DRC on a do-not-board list, barring them from commercial flights to the US until they spend at least 21 days in a third country, a White House official told Reuters.
• The WHO reported more than 1,900 confirmed Ebola cases and over 700 confirmed deaths in the current DRC outbreak, which is caused by the Bundibugyo strain with no approved vaccine or cure.