TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The deadly Ebola outbreak can be ended "by the middle of next year" if the world speeds up its response, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said, as reported by BBC News.
But he warned that although the rate of new cases was slowing in parts of West Africa, Mali - where six people have died - was now of deep concern.
And the head of the UN Ebola mission, Anthony Banbury, said the world was "far away" from beating the virus.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been worst hit by the Ebola outbreak.
More than 5,400 people have died in those three countries, along with a handful of others in Nigeria, Mali, Spain and the US.
In a separate development, Liberian police said all the country's beaches would be closed from 29 November until Liberia was declared free of Ebola.
In a statement, the police said anyone using the beach in violation of the order would be prosecuted.
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