The decision will be taken at an extra cabinet meeting on Friday. Such a classification enables authorities to take extraordinary infection control measures.
In Rwanda, an outbreak has been ongoing since the end of September and 11 people have died so far.
During Wednesday, two cases were suspected in Germany, but both of these were found to be negative on Thursday.
– It is of course very gratifying, but there is no reason to sit back, says Jakob Forssmed at the press conference.
No cases in Sweden
No cases have so far been suspected or reported in Sweden.
According to the World Health Organization WHO, the risk of a global outbreak is low. However, the risk of further spread in Rwanda is assessed as very high and spread in the surrounding region as high.
– The government and the Public Health Agency continuously take note of the risk assessments made by the WHO and the European infection control authority ECDC, says Forssmed.
The virus is named after the German university town of Marburg, where the first outbreak was noted in 1967. Since then, there have been around ten outbreaks, mainly in southern and eastern Africa.
