By Amin Kef Sesay
Sierra Leone has recorded 77 new cases of Covid-19 infections on the 1st July 2021 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 5,852. Freetown continues to record the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, with the Western Urban Area showing an increase from a total of 3,443 on Thursday 1st July 2021.
The total number of COVID cases recorded in Western Rural Area has also gone up to 854 in just few days.
As the number of COVID infections continues to rise in Sierra Leone, especially in the capital Freetown, NaCOVERC published a statement informing the general public that “Sierra Leone is currently witnessing a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic”
Indisputably the month of June, 2021, has so far been regarded as the worst month in Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 global pandemic. About 26 percent of the 5,575 infections across the country were recorded last month,(June) or 1,428 cases.
As the biggest COVID-19 wave, compared to in May 2020 (737 cases) and January 2021 (982 cases), swept through the nation, debates among the general public over the constitutionality of obliging citizens to take the vaccine have sparked off.
Sierra Leone’s economy having already been battered by the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa cannot afford to be shut down. However, authorities must prevent and fight COVID-19 the same way it did with Ebola. COVID-19 deaths are rising and the health sector is poorly equipped. The country has recorded 100 Coronavirus deaths, 21 were registered in June 2021 alone.
On the other hand, in June 2021, global Coronavirus infections recorded monthly declined to about 11 million, a sharp decrease compared to in December 2020 (20 million infections) and in April 2021 (22.5 million infections). As of June 30, 2021, the world had recorded about 183 million Coronavirus cases and 0.4 million deaths.
According to NaCOVERC’s Media Update on the 1st July 2021 Sierra Leone recorded 77 Confirmed Cases, the Cumulative Deaths stood at 102 and the Total Test Conducted was 1,057. The total confirmed cases country wide was 5,652.
