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STORY: LIBERIA / BANBURY
TRT: 1.56
SOURCE: UNMIL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 4 NOVEMBER 2014, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
1. Med shot, UN and Liberia flags
2. Wide shot, press point
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response:
“We are all extremely pleased I think, gratified that there have been some significant improvements in some areas with reducing transmissions, fewer people catching Ebola, fewer people dying from Ebola. And I think the government deserves tremendous credit for the leadership it had shown and for driving the response – national and international to the crisis.”
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response:
“We just need to now stay vigilant, not for a moment let our guard down. We can’t even for a second think that everything is OK or that we are out of the crisis, we are most certainly not out of the crisis. There are still people getting Ebola in this country there are still people dying from it.”
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response:
“As the medical professionals would tell you, it is going to be extremely difficult to get it down to zero. It’s going to require intensive laborious efforts to do that, and until that is accomplished, as long as there is one case of Ebola in any country it’s a threat to not only that country but that region and the world.”
8. Cutaway, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, the Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response:
“We have a long, difficult, hard road ahead of us; UNMEER is very committed to mobilizing additional resources – people, material, financial resources to help with the effort. We need to do more, not less and UNMEER will be doing more in support of government efforts in days and weeks to come.”
10. Wide shot, press point from behind
The Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response said in the Liberian capital Tuesday that there have been “significant improvements in some areas with reducing transmissions” of the disease, but at the same time he warned that “it is going to be extremely difficult to get it down to zero.”
Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), spoke to reporters in Monrovia after meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and visiting a logistics hub run by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Praising the government-led efforts to contain the virus, Banbury said that a large part of the explanation for the improvement in some situations is when communities, supported by national and local governments with the backing of international partners are engaging together in building Ebola Treatment Units, ensuring safe burials and contact identification and tracking.
The UN envoy however cautioned that “is going to be extremely difficult to getting it down to zero” and emphasized the need to stay vigilant.
Banbury, on the third leg of his mission that has taken him to the two other countries hardest hit by Ebola in West Africa – Guinea and Sierra Leone, is expected to brief the Security Council as well as the General Assembly when he returns to UN Headquarters in New York next week.
