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UNMEER / BANBURY NABARRO PRESSER
STORY: UNMEER / BANBURY NABARRO PRESSER
TRT: 2.59
SOURCE: UNMEER / WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 1 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE / RECENT
WHO - 30 NOVEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
1. Pan right, from hills to people in PPE
2. Wide shot, prayer over a body in a bag
UNMEER - 1 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response:
“When UNMEER was deployed we asked some of the best disease epidemiologists to try and help us understand where we would be on 1 December, what kind of case-load we would be facing. And for planning purposes, the scenario that they projected was up to 10,000 new cases per week across the three countries – we're at less than one tenth of that.”
WHO - 30 NOVEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
4. Med shot, health workers in PPE carrying a body in a body bag
UNMEER - 1 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response:
“We have exceeded those targets in most cases. In the case of safe burials, those targets are exceeded in all three countries. In the case of the isolation facilities – 70 per cent of new cases being isolated – those targets are exceeded in two of the three countries, in Liberia and Guinea. And they are being exceeded in many places in Sierra Leone.”
WHO - 30 NOVEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
6. Med shot, loading a body into an ambulance
UNMEER - 1 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Head of the United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response:
“Those 70/70 targets in 60 days were set so that we could turn this crisis around and that has been achieved. The global response has successfully turned this crisis around in, I think, a remarkable way.”
WHO - 30 NOVEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
8. Various shots, workers digging graves
UNMEER - 1 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola Virus Disease:
”The current outbreak will be ended through enabling all people with Ebola to have the best possible chances for recovery from their illnesses and preventing them from infecting others.”
WHO - 30 NOVEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
10. Wide shot, workers in PPE carrying a body through the graveyard
11. Med shot, laying a body into the grave
UNMEER - 1 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola Virus Disease:
“Numbers of people newly infected by Ebola still varies greatly each day. Slowing down in some districts and increasing in others. The distribution changes from week to week. And the situation can worsen unexpectedly.”
WHO - 30 NOVEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
13. Various shots, workers disinfecting
14. Close up, sign on the grave
Marking 60 days since the establishment of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), its chief said the set target on safe burials has been exceeded in the three worst-affected countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone – while the second target on isolating patients had been reached in Liberia and Guinea, but only in some parts of Sierra Leone.
The United Nations had set targets for December 1 of 70 per cent of burials being done safely and 70 per cent of new cases being placed in treatment facility in order to end the outbreak, which the World Health Organization says has infected more than 16,000 people in 8 countries and claimed nearly 7,000 lives.
Speaking to the journalists in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, Banbury said the “70/70 targets in 60 days were set so that we could turn this crisis around.”
He added that “the global response” has achieved that in a “remarkable way.”
Speaking at the same press conference David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola Virus Disease, said that what will end the outbreak is “enabling all people with Ebola to have the best possible chances for recovery from their illnesses and preventing them from infecting others.”
Assessing the current situation, Nabarro said that the number of new cases “varies greatly” from day to day and from one district to another.
UNMEER also reported that president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali announced over the weekend that his country has no more confirmed cases of Ebola after the last patient known to be suffering from the virus was cured.
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