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STORY: UN / DRC EBOLA
TRT: 02:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MAY 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
15 MAY 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. [Matshidiso] Moeti, visited Kinshasa on Saturday to discuss with national authorities and partners ways to mount a rapid response to stop the ongoing Ebola outbreak. The visit follows notification by the Government of an outbreak in the Likati health zone, in the northern part of the country which borders the CAR. As of Saturday, 11 suspected cases had been reported, including 3 deaths.”
5. Wide shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“Dr. Moeti said WHO has already mobilized technical experts to be deployed on the ground and is ready to provide the leadership and technical expertise required to mount a coordinated response. The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network has been activated to provide additional support if required. Reinforcement of surveillance, contact tracing, case management, and community engagement are under way. The full extent of the outbreak is not yet clear but extensive investigation and risk assessments are being conducted.”
7. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away
FILE - UNMEER - 14 JANUARY 2014, MATOTO COMMUNITY, CONAKRY, GUINEA
8. Wide shot, WHO contact tracers walking through neighbourhood streets
9. Various shots, contact tracers measuring temperature of individuals suspected of Ebola infection
FILE - UNMEER - 16 JANUARY 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA
10. Various shots, team members helping each other with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
11. Med shot, team members by MSF centre gate
12. Wide shot, MSF workers bring body to threshold
13. Various shots, Red Cross team members put body in ambulance
Matshidiso Moeti, the World health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, arrived in Kinshasa this weekend to attend a coordination meeting of the national committee at the Ministry of Health to deal with an Ebola outbreak in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York today (15 May) that “Dr. Moeti visited Kinshasa on Saturday to discuss with national authorities and partners ways to mount a rapid response to stop the ongoing Ebola outbreak.”
The visit, he said, “follows notification by the Government of an outbreak in the Likati health zone, in the northern part of the country which borders the CAR. As of Saturday, 11 suspected cases had been reported, including 3 deaths.”
Dujarric said “the full extent of the outbreak is not yet clear but extensive investigation and risk assessments are being conducted.”
According to WHO, the country's health minister requested the UN agency's support after one of five blood specimens tested positive for the Ebola virus disease.
On 9 May, WHO was informed of a cluster of undiagnosed illness and deaths, including haemorrhagic symptoms in Likati Health Zone, Bas Uele Province, some 1,300 kilometres (about 800 miles) from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, and bordering the Central African Republic (CAR).
Since 22 April, nine suspected cases, including three deaths, have been reported. Six cases are currently hospitalized.
WHO has also drawn up a comprehensive logistics plan to meet urgent requirements. The first teams of epidemiologists, biologists, and experts in the areas of social mobilization, risk communication and community engagement, and also personnel specializing in water, hygiene and sanitation, are scheduled to reach the affected area today or tomorrow via Kisangani.
More than 11,000 people died and some 28,000 cases were reported in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2015, mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
