Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2022: Following last week’s announcement by the UK government that Covid PCR tests are no longer required for people coming into the country, there are reports of passengers travelling from Freetown to the UK being asked to pay for PCR test by rogue officials in [Read More]
Eyong Ebai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 January 2022: Our purpose at GE Healthcare is to improve lives in moments that matter, and we do so by partnering to help deliver more sustainable and accessible precision healthcare. It has been a year to the day since I started my new role [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2021: 168,000 single-dose of Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine arrived in Freetown last Friday, to help boost the campaign to have more people vaccinated in Sierra Leone ahead of what scientists say is going to be another severe wave of the pandemic in the New [Read More]
Amin Kef-Ranger: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2021 A United Kingdom based Charity Trust known as the Sierra Leone Poverty Alleviation Charity Trust (SALPACT), has come to the rescue of a primary school in Freetown – the Rural Education Committee School, commonly referred to as REC Primary School which is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2021: The World Bank on Thursday approved $60 million grant financing to support maternal and child health services that will benefit two million people in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Quality Essential Health Services and Systems Support Project, funded by a $40 million International Development [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2021: Health officials in Freetown yesterday announced the discovery of the country’s first known case of the new Covid 19 Omicron variant, following confirmation of a surge in the number of positive Covid cases recorded in the last few days. According to the government, PCR [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: NACOVERC has announced another fifteen new cases recorded in Sierra Leone today, following yesterday’s report of three cases out of a sample of 477. Today’s reported cases bring the total number of cumulative positive cases to 6,420. It is still not certain whether the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: After almost six months of zero new cases of Covid infection in Sierra Leone, yesterday NaCOVERC announced that it had discovered three new positive cases. This news comes as the country braces itself for the new COVID-19 variant – Omicron, which is now making [Read More]
Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2021: The discovery of a novel Covid-19 variant (Omicron) in South Africa with significant mutations in its spike protein raises a lot of concerns and questions about the virus. First, a big thank you to South African scientists for diligent sequencing and [Read More]
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