March 11, 2021
About 98 students at Maiteko Junior Secondary School in Mabutsane are said to have tested positive for Covid-19 since last week Thursday.
Authorities say it all started with a teacher showing some flu symptoms and when she went to test for Covid-19 the results came out positive.
The subsequent contact tracing revealed the shocking number which by Monday this week stood at 98 students.
Mabutsane District Commissioner, Dintle Setlhotlhe, confirmed the cases but could not definitively give an exact number as contact tracing was ongoing and the District Health Management (DHMT) Coordinator is yet to reconcile the figures.
“They are still reconciling the numbers so that we know how many students and teachers are infected. Our main challenge is that schools in the area have boarding facilities and we also have day scholars. We have isolated those who are positive and nurses are giving them medical attention. We also separated the ablutions. Day scholars mix with other
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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021:
Following confirmation yesterday by the Guinean Health Ministry that four people had died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone says it is taking no chances.
Today, President Julius Maada Bio ordered Ministry of Health officials “to inform the general public that even though there are no reported cases of EVD in Sierra Leone, the government will take prudent action to prevent any introduction of the virus into the country and institute measures to protect the lives of Sierra Leoneans.”