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STORY: WORLD BANK / EBOLA BAN CHAN
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 21 NOVEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON DC
1. Pan right, exterior of the World Bank headquarters
2. Pan left Ban and Kim walking into press room
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“The efforts of the affected governments and local communities are working in close coordination with the United Nations system. People are taking action to protect themselves and their family members. The proportion of safe burials has rapidly improved, especially in Liberia.”
5. Cutaway, podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“The new chain of transmission in Mali is a cause of deep concern. We are translating the lessons we have already learned from the Ebola outbreak into early action to mitigate against a further spread in Mali. The Malian authorities have demonstrated great leadership and resilience since the onset of the outbreak. They have requested UNMEER’s assistance.”
7. Cutaway, podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“If we continue to accelerate our response, we can contain and end the outbreak by the middle of next year. I appeal to the international community to stay engaged. We hope the continued support, funding, logistics and personnel support, particularly health workers, will continue to be provided. The United Nations system will continue to scale up our response until the very last case of Ebola is identified and treated.”
9. Cutaway, podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO:
“We must not forget -- Ebola virus is a formidable enemy. Yes, we are seeing some early signals of hope. Cases are stabilizing. But as Mr. Secretary-General was saying, we are also seeing some new areas where they are reporting new cases. So the answer is: We must maintain our vigilance. Complacency would be our enemy. And in order to get it to zero, we have been successful in bending the curve a bit, but we need to continue to do more to get to zero.”
11. Cutaway, audience
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that by continuing to scale up the global fight against Ebola, there is hope the outbreak could be contained by mid-2015, but he emphasized that results to date are still uneven, and announced that the Organization’s top health officials will head to Mali, where the situation is still a cause of "deep concern.”
At a press conference at World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. after what he said were “in-depth” discussions with the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) on the joint UN response to counter the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Secretary-General said he had also asked the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to set an office in Mali, where “the new chain of transmission is a cause of deep concern.”
The CEB is made up of 29 Executive Heads of UN Funds and Programmes, specialized agencies, including the Bretton Woods Institutions, and related organizations – the World Tourism Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Meanwhile, in New York at UN Headquarters this afternoon, the Security Council has scheduled a meeting to hear a briefing by Dr. David Nabarro, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Ebola, in person, and Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) via video link from the field.
Earlier today, WHO released its latest report on Ebola cases dated November 18, which put the number of cases at 15,351 cases in Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States and in the previously affected countries of Nigeria and Senegal, with 5,459 reported deaths.
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