Highlights
As of 29 October 2014, the cumulative number of laboratory confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases is 3,760. The number of confirmed deaths is 1,057 with 786 survivors.*
Of the EVD confirmed cases, around 22 percent are children and youth (0-17 years), with more than 87 child survivors. To date, 2,719 children have been identified as being affected by the Ebola crisis (1,340 girls & 1,379 boys), including 873 children who have been orphaned.**
Four districts are now reporting over 500 confirmed cases – Western Area (1,079), Kailahun (551), Bombali (541) and Port Loko (518).
Almost 300 metric tons of urgently needed medical supplies arrived in Freetown this week as UNICEF steps up airlifts to help protect health workers across the country. The supplies, funded by the World Bank and DFID, arrived on four separate airlifts from Europe and China.
Funding is urgently needed to scale-up UNICEF’s response to the crisis; over 47 percent of the US$ 61 million appeal remains unfunded.
*All statistics, other than those related to UNICEF support, are from the GoSL Daily EVD SitRep issued by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and WHO’s Ebola Response Road Map Weekly Updates. For more details on breakdown of cases see: (MoHS) & (WHO)
** The Government is defining the number of children affected as: quarantined, orphaned, UASC, in treatment & discharged. Orphans are children who have lost one or both parents.
