Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2020: President Bio has appointed an eminent group of Sierra Leonean doctors and scientists in and out of the country, to help the government assess, plan and evaluate the government’s response in addressing the deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has so far taken the lives of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2020: ECOWAS Heads of States, including president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone who is currently on a 14 days self-isolation for covid-19, yesterday held an Extraordinary Summit Meeting via video conferencing to discuss how to combat the exponential spread of the virus across the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2020: The total number of people confirmed as COVID-19 positive in Sierra Leone has increased to 64, after three cases were recorded in the last twenty-four hours, according to ministry of health officials. Yesterday, the ministry of information issued a statement to correct false reports [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2020: The number of people confirmed as COVID-19 positive in Sierra Leone has jumped to 61, after eleven cases were reported in the last twenty-four hours. The government may take some comfort from this steady increase, which is far below those recorded in neighbouring Liberia [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2020: When the world is rudderless with no one in control, the truth becomes frighteningly the first casualty. A vacuum always ensues, when people fail to attribute incompetence to malevolence. It is that vacuum that becomes the midwife of most conspiracy theories. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 April 2020: There are now 50 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone, after 7 people were tested positive in the last twenty-four hours. It is not clear whether these new cases were found among those currently held in quarantine or newly identified in the community. [Read More]
U.S. Ambassador Maria E. Brewer: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 April 2020: The story of U.S. leadership in the global battle against COVID-19 is the continuation of a longer story of global health assistance around the world. These efforts demonstrate a decades-long foundation of American expertise, generosity, and planning unmatched in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 April 2020: Sierra Leone has today recorded 8 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 43, after six people who successfully completed their treatment at the military hospital in Freetown, were declared free of the virus and discharged yesterday. There are 37 confirmed cases in [Read More]
Herbert M’cleod: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2020: Just seen a letter to the President requesting 14-days “… full lockdown to flatten the curve in the rising number of COVID-19 cases across the country.” My first question was: what curve? So far we haven’t seen any curve presented for Sierra [Read More]
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