UN envoy: Flight bans hamper fight vs Ebola

Agence France-Presse

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'I hope it will be done in 6 months but we have to do it until it is completed,' UN's David Nabarro says

INFO DRIVE. A Liberian woman reads an Ebola information poster on the prevention of the Ebola epidemic, during UNICEF's sensitization campaign at the Mission for Today Holy Church, in Newkru Town, Monrovia, Liberia on June 22, 2014. Photo by Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The United Nations’ new pointman on Ebola said Monday, August 25, the fight against the epidemic was a “war” which hadn’t been won and could take another six months.

“I hope it will be done in 6 months but we have to do it until it is completed,” David Nabarro told a news conference in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.

The British physician said airlines halting flights to and from the countries afflicted by the outbreak in west Africa were making the UN’s efforts “a whole lot harder.” – Rappler.com

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