Tuesday 25 November 2014

UN to miss Dec 1 Ebola target due to rising Sierra Leone cases

Medical staff wearing protective suits gather at a health facility near the Liberia-Sierra Leone border in western Liberia By Matthew Mpoke Bigg ACCRA (Reuters) - The U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission will not fully meet its Dec. 1 target for containing the virus due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone, Anthony Banbury, the head of UNMEER, said on Monday. The mission set the goal in September of having 70 percent of Ebola patients under treatment and 70 percent of victims safely buried. That target will be achieved in some areas, Banbury told Reuters, citing progress in Liberia. "We are going to exceed the Dec 1 targets in some areas. But we are almost certainly going to fall short in others. ...




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