WHO says Liberia, Guinea meeting Ebola targets

The World Health Organization says Liberia and Guinea have met the Dec. 1 target for isolating 70 percent of people infected with Ebola and safely burying 70 percent of those who die.

WHO’s Dr. Bruce Aylward also says Sierra Leone probably met the targets in the west of the country and he expects levels nationwide to improve “in the coming weeks.”

Aylward told reporters Monday in Geneva that WHO’s ambitious plan to stop the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa has shown it possible to quickly reduce the “yawning gap” between disease levels and the capacity to respond.