“The government of Liberia and its partners through the COVID-19 Incident Management System, will today, November 2, 2020, at 10:00 A.M., open a new COVID-19 simple collection site at the Union Building, formerly the Lebanese House, Sophie road, next to the Beach.”
“The IMF has cautioned Sub-Saharan African countries to continue governance reforms that will improve trust in the rule of law and improve business conditions to encourage external support.”
“Montserrado County Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, yesterday took the lead of Senators to request plenary to demand a report on the status of the US$25 million food stimulus package in the wake of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“President George Manneh Weah has mandated that the Ministry of Health begin soliciting applications from qualified health workers in order to fill the ‘temporary’ vacancies that have resulted from the strike action. Healthcare Regulator Deemi T. Dearzrua described the President’s mandate as a joke, intended to exacerbate the situation.”
“Health Minister Dr. Wilhemina Jallah has disclosed that the Government of Liberia does not have any ‘one-time solution’ to the multiple demands being proffered and demanded by striking healthcare workers in the country.”
“With makeshift masks on, one by one, they walk to the food distribution counter and are presented a plate of food and a sachet of water. The Honorary Consul General of India in Liberia, Upjit Singh Sachdeva, has been doing this for more than a hundred consecutive days, in some of the most impecunious communities of the Liberian capital, Monrovia.”
“The President of the Republic of Liberia, Dr. George Manneh Weah, has said that the state of emergency which is due to expire on June 9, 2020 will not be renewed. According to a release from the Executive Mansion, President Weah said given the country’s level of experience with the Coronavirus and its mode of transmission, the strides being made in its containment and in view of developments in other countries, the need for further extension of the constitutional measure is not required.”
“The increase in the country’s cases comes amid President Weah’s discussion to end the nationwide moratorium on church and mosque gatherings across the country — a measure instituted in early March to curtail the spread of the virus.”
“The President of Liberia, George Manneh Weah, has announced an additional two-week extension of the measures intended to curtail the spread of Coronavirus in the country.”
“Administrators of a hospital and a clinic in Ganta, Nimba County, have alluded to public mistrust which has plagued the health system for years as being the chief culprit responsible for people shying away health centers during this Coronavirus crisis as was experienced during the 2014 Ebola outbreak when people tended to avoid treatment centers for fear of stigmatization.”
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