Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2020: Just hours after the Sierra Leone Telegraph reported an increase of just two COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone, which were confirmed yesterday afternoon, in the last hour the country’s ministry of health has announced that eleven new cases have today been found. This brings [Read More]
Africa Renewal: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2020: Considerable effort is going into fighting COVID-19 in Africa and worldwide. WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti spoke with Africa Renewal about applying lessons learned from the continent’s Ebola virus disease response, as well as actions of continental and international solidarity to address the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2020: In the last twenty-four hours, the number of COVID-19 cases has risen in Sierra Leone to fifteen. Two new cases were confirmed yesterday afternoon. Although the rate of increase remains consistently low since the first case was reported over three weeks ago, what is [Read More]
Abraham John: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2020: Sierra Leone’s Public Health Ordinance Act of 1960 undoubtedly is on the list of obsolete laws that require wholesale review or rigorous amendment. The context in which the law was passed 60 years ago (before Sierra Leone attained Independence) is arguably not [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2020: What started a few weeks ago as a trickle, with just one confirmed case which for a couple of weeks gave hope that Sierra Leone was doing very well in preventing coronavirus from spreading, this week alone – so far, has seen a rise [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2020: The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone is now eleven. According to unofficial reports, this new case is believed to be a Guinean who had been in quarantine at the Buya Hotel in Port Loko, where two other cases were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: The government has today published its latest update on the country’s coronavirus management status, and the report makes for welcoming reading, as Sierra Leone continues to fight the spread of the virus through aggressive contact tracing and isolation. So far, the total number of [Read More]
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (OOR): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Let me start with a direct quote from Sierra Leone’s Public Health Ordinance Act No. 23 of 1960, which is the guiding law on highly contagious diseases for which there is no known cure. Section 42 says: “A Health [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior School Education (MBSSE) and the Teaching Service Commission have launched a radio teaching programme for children and adolescents. The programme covers the core curriculum subjects for primary to senior secondary level education. Working in [Read More]
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