Update | Ebola scare turns out to be a false alarm in Singapore

Singapore experienced its first Ebola scare yesterday when a Nigerian woman was sent to a hospital isolation unit in the city state.

The patient, who is in her 50s, was identified as a possible Ebola case by doctors in a private hospital, the Gleneagles Hospital, the Straits Times reported.

She is believed to have flown into Singapore recently and had arrived at the hospital's emergency department with a fever.

She was immediately isolated and transferred by ambulance to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Philip Choo, chief executive of the government hospital, said it was a false alarm and the woman had been discharged, the newspaper said.

"We saw a patient with a history from Nigeria," Choo said, adding that her detailed history revealed "no contact with any suspect or confirmed patients".