A nurse who fell ill after returning from Sierra Leone has arrived at a specialist infectious diseases unit in London.
Meanwhile, a second person in Scotland is being tested for Ebola, although the healthcare worker recently returned from West Africa is said to be "at low risk" of having the virus.
It is understood that worker had been staying at a youth hostel at Torridon in the Highlands and was being transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Another patient at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, has been placed in isolation and is also being tested for Ebola.
The Scottish nurse who has become the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the UK is receiving specialist medical care at the Royal Free Hospital.
The woman returned to Scotland after a spell working in Sierra Leone and arrived at Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight at around 11.30pm on Sunday. She was showing no symptoms at the time.
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Gallery: Ebola Patient's Route To Glasgow
Freetown, Sierra Leone to Casablanca, Morocco
Casablanca to Heathrow, UK
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the risk to the general public is "extremely low to the point of negligible".
Apart from the other passengers on the flight and hospital staff the patient is thought to have had contact with only one other person in Scotland - her partner. All those contacts are being traced and will be closely monitored.
The patient, who had been working with Save The Children at the Ebola Treatment Centre at Kerry Town, Sierra Leone, was admitted to hospital early on Monday after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 7.50am. She is in a stable condition.
She was isolated and received treatment in the specialist Brownlee Unit for Infectious Diseases on the Gartnavel Hospital campus, before the operation to move her by plane and RAF ambulance to the Royal Free Hospital in London began in the early hours.
Workers in full protection suits were seen loading her quarantine tent on to an RAF C-130 plane at Glasgow airport soon after a convoy of ambulances and police cars left Gartnavel.
The north London hospital's infectious diseases unit is run by a dedicated team of doctors and laboratory staff and access is restricted to trained medical staff.
A specially designed tent is set up around the patient's bed so the infection can be contained while they are treated.
The unit successfully treated another British nurse, William Pooley, who was flown home from Sierra Leone in August after being diagnosed with Ebola.
Ms Sturgeon has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government Resilience Committee and has also spoken to Prime Minister David Cameron.
She said: "Our first thoughts at this time must be with the patient diagnosed with Ebola and their friends and family. I wish them a speedy recovery.
"Scotland has been preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa and I am confident that we are well prepared."
The woman travelled home via Casablanca and London Heathrow, spending around six hours in each airport before catching connecting flights.
She was vetted twice, in Sierra Leone and at Heathrow, without any signs of Ebola being detected.
Anyone who was on the Heathrow to Glasgow flight last night is asked to call 08000 858531.
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