Sierra Leone has today recorded one of its highest daily numbers of cases of COVID-19.
Today’s report of a looming COVID-19 crisis in Sierra Leone, comes as the country confirms its first death of a doctor from the virus.
A statement published by the Junior Doctors Association of Sierra Leone (JUDASIL) says: “We note with grief and shock the passing of our senior colleague and teacher – Dr. Samuel B. Seisay, who succumbed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the early hours of yesterday.
Yesterday, there was report on news media about the appointment by president Bio, of a Nigerian medical practitioner – Dr. Laoluwa Adejayan, as the new Head of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Task Force, with a 100 percent increase in his salary to $20,000 a month.
The overwhelming majority of the total number of 505 COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sierra Leone so far, are in the capital Freeteown – with 412 recorded cases.
