The head of the UN mission charged with fighting
Ebola in West Africa has told the BBC he does
not yet have the resources necessary to defeat it.
Tony Banbury said more help was urgently
needed, despite significant contributions from the
UK, China, Cuba and the US.
But he was hopeful of achieving the target of
70% bed space for new cases and 70% safe
burials by December.
The confirmed death toll is now 4,818, says the
World Health Organization.
The numbers are down since the WHO previously
reported figures last Friday, as it says it has
changed the way the figures are collated.
But it said in the countries worst affected by the
outbreak - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea -
transmission remained "persistent and
widespread, particularly in the capital cities" .
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