Screening of flights from Ebola-affected countries due to start at Birmingham International Airport next week
Passenger screening for Ebola is to be extended to Birmingham Airport.
Staff have yet to be officially notified about the tests.
But they are due to begin checking arrivals from flights with connections to Ebola-affected countries next week, officials from Public Health England announced.
Screening for the virus which has killed about 4,500 people in West Africa started at Heathrow this week. It will also be introduced at Manchester.
Airport officials said they were waiting for official notification from public health bodies over the introduction of the testing programme.
Chief executive of Public Health England Duncan Selbie described the challenge of introducing screening as “phenomenal”.
In a weekly message to staff, he said that once the existing measures covering Heathrow, Gatwick and the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras had “settled”, they would be rolled out to other ports of entry.
A statement from Birmingham Airport is expected later today.
Too little, too late.
