Liberia On Verge Of Overcoming Ebola – Min. Brown
18 March 2015, 6:33 pm Written by Micat Liberia
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LINA Bulletin
Information Minister Lewis Brown has said Liberia is on the verge of overcoming the deadly Ebola virus given that 27 days have elapsed since the countdown of the two incubation periods of 42 days to be declared Ebola-free.
Brown said with only 15 days to go, Liberia is on the forward march to finally overcoming the most difficult challenge it has ever faced in its post-war recovery period.
Speaking at the Ministry of Information daily Ebola press conference at the Ministry Wednesday, Brown, however, reminded Liberians that the country is not out of the woods yet and that all Liberians should consider it a duty to make the nation a safe place to inhabit.
The government spokesman said Liberians have learned well “a very hard lesson that as a result of our attachment to one another a single case of Ebola is capable of exponentially multiplying out of control.”
He lauded the leadership role played by the government under the stewardship of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as well as initiatives by local community dwellers as a significant achievement which will be told to future generations.
Since March 2014 Liberia has struggled to contain the largest Ebola outbreak in history after it first surfaced in D.R. Congo (then Zaire) in 1976.
Over 10,000 people, mainly in the three Mano River Union (MRU) countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, have died as a result of the epidemic.