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COVID-19 SITREP Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation
New Confirmed 21
Recoveries 4
Deaths 0
Cumulative Confirmed 1752
Recoveries 1292
Deaths 66
Case Fatality Rate (%) 3.8%
Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Situational Report Report No.115 Date of Issue 23rd July, 2020, 3pm
HIGHLIGHTS
As of 23rd July 2020, there were 1,752 confirmed COVID-19 cases,
66 deaths and 1292 recoveries in Sierra Leone
Twenty one COVID-19 cases and four recoveries and zero deaths
were reported in the last 24 hours
National attack rate is 23.3/100,000
Two hundred and ninety nine COVID 19 tests were conducted in
four laboratories in the last 24 hours. Positivity rate was 7.0 %.
Total COVID-19 tests conducted to date are 15,828 (2.1/1000
population)
Overall Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is 3.8% but increases with age
76.3% of cases have recovered
164 (9.4%) COVID-19 cases are among health workers
Nationwide trainings on Incident management system, and COVID-
19 Surveillance are ongoing
COVID-19 SITREP Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation
Figure 2: Daily COVIID-19 Cases and 7-Day Moving Average, Sierra
Leone as of 23rd July 2010
This is the seventeenth week of the COVID-19 outbreak in Sierra Leone
There is an increased proportion of cases reported in Rural Districts Cases Reported Over the last 7 days
74 COVID-19 cases have been reported over the last seven days
The 21 cases reported today are from Tonkolili (8), Moyamba (3), Western Area Urban (2), Bonthe (2), Karene (2), Pujehun (2), Bombali (1) and Kenema (1).
Thirteen of the new cases reported today are contacts of confirmed cases
Figure 1: Daily COVID-19 Cases in Sierra Leone as of 23rd July 2020; Western Area includes Urban and Rural; Rural Districts
includes all other 14 Districts
Figure 3: Weekly COVID-19 Cases Reported in Sierra Leone
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COVID-19 SITREP Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation
Figure 4: Age Distribution and Age Specific CFR
Figure 5: Age-Sex Distribution of COVID-19 Cases
Median Age all Cases= 33
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Males= 929 (53%)
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Overall CFR=3.8%
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15,828 Total COVID-19 Tests
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Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation
Technical Areas Variable No
Contact Tracing Cumulative No. of Contacts Listed 9872
Total No. of contacts currently under monitoring 915
Total No. of contacts reached in the last 24 hours 895 (%)
Quarantine Total No. Currently under quarantine 644
Self-Quarantine 600 (93.1%)
Institutional Quarantine 44 (6.8%)
Laboratory Testing Laboratory tests done in last 24 hours 299
No of positive tests in last 24 hours (% ) 21 (7.0%)
Cumulative number of tests 15,828
Event Based Surveillance
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Total Alerts Received through 117 System 98
No. of COVID related alerts 18
No. of COVID related alerts investigated 18 (100 %)
Figure 7: Geographic of COVID 19 cases in Sierra Leone as of 23/07/ 2020
• 11 out of 16 districts have reported COVID-19 cases over the last 7 days
• Districts with highest attack rate are Western Area Urban, Western Area Rural, Bo, Bonthe and
Kenema
• National attack rate is 22.9/100,000 and the attack rate in Western Area Urban is three times higher
than the national average
• 98% of contacts currently under follow up were reached by contact tracers
• 93.1% of persons under quarantine are under self-quarantine
• Cumulative number of COVID-19 tests conducted is 15,828 (2.1 tests/1000 population)
• Average positivity rate of samples tested for COVID-19 is 11.1%