A UN employee infected with the Ebola virus in west Africa has died after arriving in Germany last week for treatment, the hospital said Tuesday.

“The Ebola patient died during the night in the St Georg Clinic in Leipzig,” it said in a statement.

Local health officials said last week that the patient was a Sudanese doctor who had arrived in Germany from Liberia on Thursday.

The United Nations medical worker was infected with Ebola in Liberia and despite “intensive medical procedures,” he still died, said the German hospital authorities.

The St. Georg hospital in Leipzig said the 56-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died overnight of the infection. It released no further details and did not answer telephone calls.

The man tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 6, prompting Liberia’s UN peacekeeping mission to place 41 staff members who had possibly been in contact with him under “close medical observation.”

He arrived in Leipzig for treatment on Oct. 9 where he was put into a special isolation unit.