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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2020: Six people were today discharged from the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown, after successfully receiving treatment and cleared of the virus. They are among the first group of 35 confirmed cases that were admitted at the military hospital. The index case – Mr Alphajor [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2020: Sierra Leone has in the last twenty-four hours recorded 5 new cases of the COVID-19 virus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 35. But as the number of cases rises slowly, questions are being asked about the effectiveness of the government’s strategic [Read More]
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