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Ebola Update by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon at the Daily Noon Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York (30 October 2014).

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The World Bank announced today an additional $100 million funding in its Ebola crisis response to speed up deployment of foreign health workers to the three worst-affected countries in West Africa.

Current estimates by the United Nations indicate that about 5,000 international medical, training and support personnel are needed in the three countries over the coming months to respond to the Ebola outbreak, including 700-1,000 foreign health workers to treat patients in the Ebola treatment centers.

The World Bank’s additional financing will help set up a coordination hub in close cooperation with the three countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response to recruit, train and deploy qualified foreign health workers.
As for the number of cases, the latest figures from the WHO report a total of 13,703 cases and 4,922 deaths.
The most intense transmission continues to occur in the Montserrado area, a region that takes in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. But the World Health Organization stresses that the capacity to capture a true picture of the situation in the country remains hamstrung by the underreporting of cases.
The full situation report is available on WHO’s website.
Also, I would also like to flag for use here and on the web that the Dag Hammarskjold Library (DHL) launched an online Ebola Research Guide.
The quick-start research guide brings together key information sources with a focus on policy and political issues around the epidemic.
And Dr David Nabarro, UN System Coordinator on Ebola, will be my guest tomorrow Friday at noon.
Global Ebola Response Website:
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