0.00%
3.12%
75.78%
0.00%
21.10%
Country | Total | New | Deaths | Deaths today | Recovered | Active | Critical | Per Mil Pop |
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Sierra Leone | 2337 | 0 | 73 | 0 | 1771 | 0 | 493 |
[Leadership] Captain of the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone, Umaru Bangura has tested positive for coronavirus ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying match against Nigeria's Super Eagles on November 9, 2020.
[WHO] Freetown -- Although the first case of COVID-19 didn't emerge until late in March in Sierra Leone, by late April, immunization rates and the use of child health care services had worryingly declined by about 19%.
[WFP] Freetown -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of JPN 250 million (US$ 2.3 million) from the Government of Japan to support primary school children in Kambia and Pujehun districts of Sierra Leone.
[Concord] Sierra Leone's Attorney-General and Minister of Justice on Thursday 17th September 2020 held a Maiden Meeting with Development Partners in the Justice Sector. The meeting was facilitated by and held at the Conference Room of the Justice Sector Coordination Office (JSCO), Special Court for...
[Concord] ... Agencies warn
[WHO] The World Health Organization continues to expend its strategic technical expertise support to include logistical and operational support to the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to respond to COCID-19 pandemic. This was demonstrated with the recent donation...
[New Dawn] Former Liberian president Charles Taylor's persistent quest to be relocated from the British prison in which he is serving his 50-year sentence to a third country has be dealt another blow.
[WHO] On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing molecular laboratory was commissioned in Makeni City, northern Sierra Leone, to facilitate scaling up of testing capacity for the disease in the country. This makes the 6th COVID-19 testing site in Sierra Leone, in addition...
[Concord] A community-based organization, Change My Story's intervention has helped in no small way in assisting Goderich community and its neighboring communities of Levuma, Metchem, Funkia, Oba Funkia, Milton Margai, Gbendebu, Manjar Town, Fonima, Baoma, Sugar Land and Juba through the distribution...
[Africa Renewal] Earlier version of locally developed app was used to help tackle the 2014 Ebola outbreak
[Concord] Minister of Health and Sanitation, Professor Alpha Tejan Wurie has assured health workers in the eastern district town of Kenema that government was committed to providing more job opportunities for them, adding that the issue of pin-codes for nurses and other health practitioners will soon...
[Concord] Member of Parliament representing Constituency 131, Hon. Mohamed Sheriff Rahman-Coker yesterday provided examination materials to pupils that would be writing both the Basic Education Certification Examinations (BECE) and the West Africa Senior Secondary School Examinations (WASSCE) in various...
[African Arguments] Deaths from malaria could double if the fight against coronavirus comes at the expense of anti-malaria efforts, warns Sierra Leone's Health Minister.
[Concord] - says World Bank Economic Update
[Sierra Leone Government] Sixteen Cuban Medical Doctors and Nurses, who are in Sierra Leone to help the country's response to the Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, have today met His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House.
[Concord] The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) has provided $425,000 contribution to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support efforts to combat organised crime in Sierra Leone,a release from the US Embassy states
[Observer] The African Development Bank's (AfDB) Board of Directors on Friday, July 24, approved a UA 38.15 million ($53.25 million) multi-country grant to The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the form of direct budget support to bolster efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the three West African...
[Concord] Resident Minister,North-Western Region, Haja Isata Abdullia Kamara, has commended CARE International for their support to the health sector, adding that government is determined to fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
[Concord] Sierra Leone's private sector is used to surviving crises, but COVID-19 will test many businesses to the limit. In every crisis, accurate, up-to-date information is one of the first lines of defence. Invest Salone's COVID-19 information portal is helping to meet that need by providing free...