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A Chinese plane carrying emergency humanitarian supplies for Liberia arrives at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 11, 2014 [Xinhua]
“You have proven to be a friend in need. That’s the best friend you can have when you are in trouble, when you face hardships that person is a true friend,” Sirleaf said in the capital Monrovia on Wednesday.
1,069 people have died so far from the deadly virus and an estimated 1,975 suspected cases have been reported. WHO has warned that there is “no early end in sight” to the severe health crisis and called for “extraordinary measures” to stop the transmission of the disease.
China has sent medical experts and an almost $5 million aid fund to the worst affected countries- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Eight Chinese health workers are in quarantine in Sierra Leone because they may have contracted Ebola, according to the spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Freetown, Xu Zhou.
The seven doctors and one nurse treated patients at two Chinese-run hospitals in Freetown.
Meanwhile on Thursday, a consignment of experimental Ebola drugs sent by the US has arrived by plane in Liberia.
The drug, ZMapp, will be used to treat two African doctors in Liberia who were working with Ebola patients.
Source: Agencies
