Ebola Update - Noon Briefing (13 November 2014)

United Nations Nov 13, 2014
Ebola Update by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General at the Daily Noon Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.
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(Update)
LIBERIA/EBOLA
On Ebola, the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) report a total of 14,098 cases Ebola virus disease and 5,160 deaths.
There is some evidence that case incidence is no longer increasing nationally in Guinea and Liberia, but steep increases persist in Sierra Leone, and the World Health Organization stresses that cases and deaths continue to be under-reported in this outbreak.
In Mali, there have been 4 reported confirmed and probable cases, and 4 deaths. The most recent cases are not related to the first Ebola patient in Mali, who died on 24 October.
The UN Mission in Mali confirmed yesterday that some 20 UN peacekeepers are currently in quarantine, as they are being treated in the same clinic where a case was reported. All of them show no symptoms of the disease so far.
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro (video: ), as well as Tony Banbury (video: ), head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), just briefed the General Assembly and will be speaking to you at the stake out outside of the ECOSOC Chamber, as soon as they are finished, and hopefully we’ll get a signal when that happens.