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This graph shows the number
of new cases of Ebola in Liberia,

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from 15th of August all the way up
to the first week of December.

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And look: in mid-august,
it was about 10 cases per day,

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then started the catastrophe:
it increased like this,

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and continued up to almost 70
registered cases in the end of September.

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But there were also many missed
cases, so it may have reached

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all the way up to
100 new cases per day.

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But then we are very sure
that it came down like this,

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during October, because the measures
taken in this country

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were the right ones in the catastrophe:

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cases were insulated,
population was informed,

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they changed their behaviour,
the dead bodies were taken care of

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with safety barriers:
everything went relatively well,

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and we are down, now, here,
at ten per day.

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But remember: the epidemic in Nigeria
never reached one case per day!

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Nigeria didn't come up here,
so it's more then ten, twenty times

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more difficult here today in Liberia,
then Nigeria ever had.

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It means, we have now to make functioning

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an almost perfect contact tracing system,

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so that we can insulate
all new cases, very very rapidly,

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before they transmit to others.

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And that's what we're building now:
but it will take a lot of resources,

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because we may go several
months into the next year,

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because the objective is very clear:

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we have to bring
Ebola transmission to zero!

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The only safe and stable level
of Ebola is zero cases!