This graph shows the number of new cases of Ebola in Liberia,
from 15th of August all the way up to the first week of December.
And look: in mid-august, it was about 10 cases per day,
then started the catastrophe: it increased like this,
and continued up to almost 70 registered cases in the end of September.
But there were also many missed cases, so it may have reached
all the way up to 100 new cases per day.
But then we are very sure that it came down like this,
during October, because the measures taken in this country
were the right ones in the catastrophe:
cases were insulated, population was informed,
they changed their behaviour, the dead bodies were taken care of
with safety barriers: everything went relatively well,
and we are down, now, here, at ten per day.
But remember: the epidemic in Nigeria never reached one case per day!
Nigeria didn't come up here, so it's more then ten, twenty times
more difficult here today in Liberia, then Nigeria ever had.
It means, we have now to make functioning
an almost perfect contact tracing system,
so that we can insulate all new cases, very very rapidly,
before they transmit to others.
And that's what we're building now: but it will take a lot of resources,
because we may go several months into the next year,
because the objective is very clear:
we have to bring Ebola transmission to zero!
The only safe and stable level of Ebola is zero cases!