A 56-year-old UN employee, who caught Ebola while working in Liberia, has died at a clinic in Leipzig on Monday night.
The UN employee from Liberia who was transported to Leipzig last week after contracting Ebola died overnight at St. Georg Hospital, according to the St Georg clinic.
The 56-year-old Sudanese man had been flown from Liberia to Leipzig last Thursday, where he received treatment at a specialist unit at the St Georg clinic.
On his arrival, doctors at the hospital had described his condition as "highly critical, but stable".
On Tuesday morning, the clinic confirmed in a statement that their patient had died on Monday night, "in spite of intensive medical measures and the best efforts on behalf of the medical staff".
According to the World Health Organisation, around 8,400 people have been infected with Ebola after the current outbreak of the disease in Africa, out of which more than 4,000 people have died. The epidemic is still out of control in the west African states of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.