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STORY: GENEVA / EBOLA UPDATE
TRT: 1.04
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 8 JULY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior of the Palais de Nations
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (Englsh) Fadela Chaib, Spokeswoman, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Now, in the region there is really, awareness that it is not a country’s problem but it is a regional problem and we have means to control it. If we strengthen the surveillance, if we work better with local communities to explain what is ebola because there is still a lot of resistance from the population to cooperate with health workers. They are still not willing to report to health clinics to get treatment.”
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fadela Chaib, Spokeswoman, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We need really to work together in different front[s] to control it and it is possible to control it. As of now what I can tell you, Guinea, since few days has not reported any new cases, but there are many other cases in Sierra Leone and Liberia.”
6. Wide shot, press room
New cases and deaths due to Ebola virus disease (EVD) were reported by the Ministries of Health in the three West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Between 3 and 6 July 2014, a total of 50 new cases of EVD, including 25 deaths, were reported in these three countries.
There were no new cases reported in Guinea, but it reported two deaths caused by EVD. Liberia reported 16 new cases with 9 deaths and Sierra Leone 34 new cases and 14 deaths.
These numbers include laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths of EVD.
Commenting on the outcome of the emergency two-day ministerial meeting held in Ghana last week, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told journalists in Geneva today (8 Jul) that “there is an awareness” that the EVD outbreak is a regional problem.
She said the way to fight the outbreak is to strengthen the surveillance and “work better with local communities” in order to recruit their cooperation with health workers.
As of 6 July 2014, the total number of cases attributed to EVD in the three countries stands at 844, including 518 deaths.
