The government declared a two-day grace period – Friday May 1 and Saturday May 2 - to allow people to prepare for the lockdown. By KEMO CHAMMore by this AuthorSierra Leone is to go into another three-day nationwide lockdown in an effort by the government to scale up its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bio said he took the decision based on expert advice, which indicated an increase in community transmission of the virus. “Epidemiological data and other evidence indicate that there is community transmission of Covid-19 in Sierra Leone,” Bio said in a statement aired on State Broadcaster, SLBC. Sierra Leone was the last West African country to record a case of the virus.

Source: Daily Nation May 02, 2020 04:26 UTC