The 75 year old Spanish priest infected by Ebola virus in Liberia, has arrived in Madrid, Spain.

Missionary Miguel Pajares was rushed to hospital in Madrid after being repatriated on a military plane from Liberia  this morning.

He was put in quarantine in Monrovia on Saturday after testing positive for the killer disease.

Mr Pajares, who had been treating patients infected with Ebola at a hospital his Catholic humanitarian group runs, was flown back to Spain accompanied by a nun.

Miguel Pajares, left, at work in Liberia

medics carry the Spanish priest on arrival in Madrid

Although she was uninfected, she was also quarantined.

The pair were due to be taken to an isolation ward at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital after tests at an air force base in Madrid.

Twelve medical staff working in three shifts will care for them in a building which has been cleared of other patients.

Mr Pajares’ condition overnight was said to have deteriorated with local reports saying he was on a drip and was now unable to walk unaided.

The priest’s brother Emilio said he was ‘worried but happy’ about the transfer.

Mercedes Vinuesa, director general of public health in Spain, downplayed fears over the repatriation by insisting: ‘The safety protocols we will use guarantee minimum risk.’

Mr Pajares had worked as a missionary in Africa for nearly five decades and was due to return to Spain for good in September.

Speaking before he was flown back he said: ‘I’d like to return because we have a very bad experience of what’s happened here.

‘We are abandoned. We want to go to Spain and be treated like people.’

.Story originally reported by Mail Online