The 24-year-old has been receiving treatment for malaria since Wednesday, after it was earlier thought that he might be an Ebola carrier. He had landed at Lisbon airport on Sunday on a flight from Guinea, where he had been visiting family for five months, before travelling by coach to Coruña in Galicia.


There he was taken to hospital with fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, triggering the Ebola protocol.


But according to Galicia's health service, two tests for the virus have now come back negative and the patient is now to be removed from intensive care and isolation.


Spanish authorities did not initially contact passengers on the coach on which the man travelled, on the grounds that the risk of contagion was "minimal" during the incubation phase of the disease, and because the tickets were sold without names having been taken.