Progress, but virus still posing a threat
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LIBERIA is making some progress in containing the Ebola outbreak while Sierra Leone is “in a crisis situation which is going to get worse,” the top anti-Ebola officials in the two countries said.
People must redouble efforts to stop the disease, which has infected more than 13,000 people and killed nearly 5,000, the officials said. Their assessments underscore that Ebola remains a threat. It can appear to be on the wane, only to re-emerge in the same place or balloon elsewhere if people don’t avoid touching Ebola patients or the bodies of those who have died.
“We need to go ahead to stop the transmission in order to arrest the situation,” Palo Conteh said in Sierra Leone capital Freetown in his first press conference since he was appointed CEO of the National Ebola Response Center.
In neighboring Liberia, the rate of infections appears to be declining, according to the World Health Organization. However, Tolbert Nyenswah, who leads the Liberian government’s Ebola response, said: “Indicators are showing that there’s good progress being made in terms of the trend, but it’s a very slow progress, and so we cannot celebrate right now.”
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