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 Some 5,000 people have been killed during the current Ebola
outbreak, the deadliest on record, with most of the fatalities in
the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
"There’s some good news coming out of Liberia in terms of reduced
number of cases, at least coming to the hospitals," World Bank Group
president Jim Yong Kim told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday in
Seoul.
"But then there is more concerning news coming out of Sierra Leone,
where regions that were thought to be under control have now seen a
surge in cases, and this is what we see with Ebola - we see drops
and then we see surges," he said.
"So the effort is going to take a long time. The effort is going to
require ... thousands of health workers and we need countries to
step up right now to provide those workers so that we can begin
really tackling the end game, which is to get to zero in each of
these three countries," he said.
On Wednesday, Australia's prime minister said the country would fund
an Ebola treatment clinic in Sierra Leone, responding to pressure
from the World Bank to do more to tackle the deadly outbreak at its
source.
(Reporting by Christine Kim and Tony Munroe; Editing by Jeremy
Laurence)
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