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Liberia: Govt Hits Travellers With $75 Covid-19 Test Fee
FrontPageAfrica, 30 October 2020
Travelers arriving and departing the Roberts International Airport will soon be made to cough out US$75 as fees toward testing for the deadly Covid-19, Ministry of Health officials… Read more »
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Liberia: Gov't Opens New COVID-19 Testing Site
New Dawn, 1 November 2020
The Liberian Government and its partners through the Incident Management System-COVID-19, will on Monday, November 1, 2020, at 10:00 A.M., open a new COVID-19 simple collection… Read more »
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Liberia: CALP Empowers Single Mothers
New Dawn, 1 November 2020
Care for Liberia Population or CALP, stresses a need to enhance vocational skills of single mothers in the country. Executive Director Samuel Jacobs says enhancing skills of single… Read more »
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Liberia: VP Taylor Recovers From Covid-19
Liberian Observer, 30 October 2020
-- says her return will inject new dynamism and energy to the governance process Read more »
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Liberia: Liberia Gets Major Boost for Covid-19 Fight, Receives 15 Ambulances
NEWS, 28 October 2020
The Ministry of Health has received 15 ambulances donated by the World Bank to the Ministry of Health to equip the Ministry of Health with the needed logistics to respond to the… Read more »
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Liberia: Millions Vanish in Thin Air - Premilinary Audit of Covid-19 Fund Reveals
FrontPageAfrica, 27 October 2020
A preliminary audit report has uncovered that the Government of Liberia's COVID-19 budget as being expended by the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) and the… Read more »
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Liberia: MFDP Official Calls for Reflection, Identification of Covid-19 Impact On Govt Targets
LINA, 2 October 2020
The Deputy Minister for Budget at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), Tanneh G. Brunson, has urged stakeholders to "reflect" and "clearly identify" the… Read more »
Covid-19 Testing Fee for Travellers to Liberia
The country's ministry of health says travellers arriving and departing the Roberts International Airport will soon pay U.S.$75 for Covid-19 testing fees. This comes after an audit, conducted by the Internal Audit Agency (IAA) under the supervision of its former director-general, Emmanuel B. Nyeswa before his sudden death, revealed that the expenditure of funds showed inconsistencies. Meanwhile. Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has returned to the country after her successful recovery from Covid-19. She was flown to Accra, Ghana on an emergency flight on August 11, 2020, when she suffered respiratory complications as a result of Covid-19. Liberia has recorded 1,476 confirmed cases, 1,279 recoveries and 82 deaths as of November 2, 2020.
In Liberia, UNFPA is working together with the World Health Organization to co-lead the COVID-19 surveillance effort and the coordination of contact tracing.
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President George Weah has ordered that striking health workers be replaced, after they declared a nationwide "stay at home action" from September 16, 2020. They are reportedly ... Read more »
