Ebola: Virus is ‘winning the race’ against the world, UN official warns
Heather Saul
IndependentUK
Wednesday 15 October 2014
The Ebola virus is “winning the race” and the international response to the crisis “is not nearly enough”, the UN official in charge of responding to the outbreak has warned.
“Ebola got a head start on us, is far ahead of us, is running faster than us and is winning the race”, Anthony Banbury told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) projects the pace of infections accelerating in West Africa – to as many as 10,000 new cases per week within two months.
Mr Banbury said the global response to the Ebola crisis must meet critical goals by 1 December “or face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we don’t have a plan”.
By that date, the world must ensure that at least 70 per cent of people infected are in treatment and at least 70 per cent of burials occur without contamination, he said.
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