COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Sierra Leone |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Arrival date | 31 March 2020 (4 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) |
Confirmed cases | 7,979[1] |
Recovered | 7,636[2] |
Deaths | 125[1] |
Government website | |
Sierra Leone News Agency - SLENA |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Sierra Leone on 31 March 2020.[3]