Long way to go!2 Dec 2014 06:06
From WHO.
Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward said it was "meaningful progress", and proved that "you can catch up with Ebola, even on this scale".
He acknowledged that an increase in cases in Sierra Leone meant the country had not reached the much-touted goal of having 70 percent of Ebola patients in isolation beds by December 1.
But he said he expected this to happen in the "coming weeks", insisting the national figure was skewed by the new outbreak in the west of the country.
The WHO is now looking at how to step up its efforts to trace people who had close contact with Ebola victims, with a goal of halting the epidemic by mid-2015.