Iran to set up Ebola control hospital

Iranian health officials are working to set up a special hospital to fight any possible Ebola outbreak, a media report said.

"We have allocated a hospital for controlling Ebola disease" if any case of infection is diagnosed, Xinhua quoted Mohammad-Mehdi Gouya, the chief of the Center for Management of Contagious Diseases, as saying Sunday.

The official said that although no Ebola case has been detected in Iran so far, the ministry should develop a plan for setting up more potential Ebola control and quarantine centres.

Gouya also said there was no case of coronavirus infection among the country's Haj pilgrims, who returned from Saudi Arabia recently.

The deadly Ebola virus, which first broke out in west Africa in March, has put many countries on high alert. Many have even tried to shut out the virus by closing their borders.