Obama praises Ebola progress, though ‘job is not nonetheless done’
WASHINGTON — President Obama welcomed Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to a White House Friday to praise her for her work in battling Ebola in West Africa, though cautioned that a universe should not turn restored with a swell finished so far.
Both leaders cautioned that a conflict opposite Ebola is not over.
“Our pursuit is not nonetheless done,” Obama said, observant Guinea and Sierra Leone that are still “somewhat behind.”
“We are not there yet,” Sirleaf echoed.
As of Feb. 22, there had been 3,153 reliable cases of Ebola in Liberia, and twice as many suspected cases. But a World Health Organization pronounced that delivery of a illness is now during “very low levels,” with usually one new box in a prior week. But Guinea and Sierra Leone had 98 new cases during a same time week, as high declines have slowed and vulnerable funeral practices, that can widespread a disease, sojourn common.
Sirleaf thanked Obama and “the American people in general” for their assistance in fighting a outbreak.
“We know that there was vigour here to be means to stop any travelling for people from Liberia. But we wish to appreciate we for station organisation in facing that pressure, and rallying a American people to see this for what it is,” she said. “
We know that there was fear in this nation and we accepted that since we were aroused ourselves. We did not know how to confront this different enemy.”
Obama, who resisted congressional vigour to hindrance transport from west Africa into a United States final year, hold adult Liberia adult as an instance of a gains that can be finished with general cooperation.
“What is extraordinary, since of President Sirleaf’s leadership, since of a intrepidity of so many people in Liberia and since of a actions of a United States and also a general community, we have finished unusual strides,” Obama said, observant that new cases are now down 95% from their peak.
“Normal life is commencement to lapse to Liberia. Children are commencement to go behind to school. People are commencement to go behind to soccer matches. Businesses have reopened,” Obama said.
The U.S. military, that is circuitous down a deployment to West Africa, “made a vicious difference,” she said. The Pentagon is handing off shortcoming for a logistical operations ancillary a open health efforts to municipal officials and non-governmental organizations.
Obama affianced continued assistance to a segment to “make certain we are not restored so prolonged there is even one box of Ebola remaining.”
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