The Health department stages simulation of suspected Ebola outbreak to test readiness.
Health workers in the UK were on high alert on Saturday as an eight-hour nationwide drill was carried out to test Britain's preparedness for a possible Ebola outbreak.
In this video released by the Department of Health, health professionals are seen responding to a possible scenario of a sick person who has recently returned from Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst affected by the disease.
The footage shows an actor pretending to collapse in a shopping centre in Newcastle and the ensuing precautionary steps taken by NHS emergency workers.
The exercise, which also included a fake emergency government Cobra meeting, was ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron to test Britain's preparedness for UK cases after the estimated death toll from the disease in West Africa passed 4,000 for the first time.
Ebola is not contagious until symptoms begin, and spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of patients. There is currently no vaccine against the disease.
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