A small aircraft carrying a Norwegian doctor with the Ebola virus asked permission Monday evening to land in Madeira to refuel. The aircraft was denied permission by the Portuguese authorities, and also by Morocco.
The pilot eventually landed in the Canary Islands where he refueled and traveled to Paris where they made a stop over before carrying on to Oslo.
The doctor contacted the virus in Sierra Leon, one of the worst affected areas for the disease.
The health minister Paulo Macedo has said today that only Lajes in the Azores, and the civil and Military airport in Lisbon are the only two places a plane can land with an Ebola victim aboard.
From Diario Noticias.