00:00It will be a big mistake to underestimate, especially with this strain, Buntibugio, which we don't have the vaccine.
00:09So I would really encourage everyone, let's help each other.
00:16We can bring this thing into control because the good thing is that we know how to put it in
00:25control.
00:26We just need to work together.
00:30We tested Chico here. We formed a very fast WhatsApp group.
00:39The trajectory is difficult at this stage, to say, with the hyperdynamic movement of the people.
00:49So I think we need another few days or weeks to really see the extent.
01:00Because the people have just been on the ground now, I mean, international and the local ones.
01:09So let's see.
01:11But as Uganda started to announce that these two cases which they have, it's too early to provide precise projection
01:19on duration or total case numbers.
01:22But however, experience still tells us that trajectory will depend heavily on how quickly we can scale up case detection,
01:33isolations, community engagement, as I said earlier, and infection prevention measures.
01:39To complement what they are doing, yeah.
01:42So that Uganda, on the 3rd of June, they usually have...
01:50Hunter virus started before Ebola came and all of us, the attention was there.
01:59It involved 23 nations.
02:03There were 23 nations in the ship.
02:05It involved a ship which started all the way from Argentina going to South Atlantic and down coming to Cape
02:15Veda in our continent, in our West Africa.
02:18It's here in HQ and because I was here already, it was more easier.
02:23Let's negotiate with Uganda, if possible.
02:28I'm grateful to President Museveni.
02:31The following day, we saw a letter for...
02:33So you are talking about big nations here.
02:37So the attention, you cannot compare with something which...
02:43But I think it might be a mistake because...
02:49You just need one contact person to make all of us at risk.
03:00So my wish and prayer that we should give it the attention it deserves because no one is safe until
03:07everyone is safe.
03:08It's a public health emergency of international consent.
03:18It's simple.
03:19When it went to the committee, the emergency committee, everything...
03:25It will not be fair to forget that there's a lot of misinformation on the ground.
03:31So that's another epidemic by itself.
03:34So we are trying to fight both frontiers.
03:37But it was all about not understanding that there is a process we have to follow to bury the victim
03:46because...
03:48He was already a confirmed curse.
03:53Okay, the difference between this...
03:57You say, if we are not very careful...
04:02We are going to see more death, not from Ebola, it will be from malaria.
04:08Because the attention now is drawn to Ebola.
04:13Parents fear to go to the hospitals because of all this notion we are going to be retained or isolated.
04:21And in that area, the most people who die, they are under fives.
04:29Because I saw it in...
04:32We will still continue to look for the index case.
04:36But I shouldn't be forgotten the background which I said.
04:40This is a tough area.
04:42You just don't go out there easily.
04:44We have to protect our staffs.
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