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The foreign ministry and related government agencies will meet this Monday to discuss how Korea is going to support global efforts to tackle Ebola.
This follows President Park Geun-hye's decision last week to send a medical support team to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
An official says the timing of the dispatch and number of workers to be sent will be discussed.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is calling on the international community to help her country in the fight against the disease.
She says efforts require a commitment from EVERY nation that has the capacity to help. stressing that Ebola respects no borders.
The worldwide death toll has surpassed 45-hundred, but there have been some positive developments.
A Spanish nurse, who was the first person to contract Ebola OUTSIDE of West Africa, has now tested negative for the virus.
The nurse was known to have contracted Ebola while treating the two infected patients in Madrid.
Welcome news in the U.S. as well as nearly 50 people who had contact with the first Ebola patient in Dallas have almost completed a three-week watch period with no sign any of them has contracted the virus.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News.
Reporter : ashin@arirang.co.kr
