SITUATION OVERVIEW
A total of 14 confirmed cases were reported from Freetown, Kambia, and Port Loko in the week to 12 July. This is the highest total since 14 June.
For the first time in several months the majority of cases in Sierra Leo-ne were reported from Freetown. Eight of the 10 cases were regis-tered contacts residing in quarantined homes in the Magazine Wharf area of the city, which has been a focus of transmission for several weeks. The remaining 2 cases have an epidemiological link to the Mag-azine Wharf chain of transmission, but were identified after post-mortem testing of community deaths, and represent a high risk of fur-ther transmission.
In Kambia, 2 cases were reported from Samu chiefdom on the north-ern border with Forecariah, Guinea. Both were known contacts of a previous case. The remaining case was reported from a quarantined home in Tonko Limba chiefdom, and was also a registered contact of a previous case.
The single case from Port Loko was reported from the chiefdom of Marampa, and the source of infection is still under investigation. As of 19 July 3 additional cases are being reported from Marampa.
All but 1 of the 14 cases reported from Sierra Leone in the week to 12 July were either registered contacts of a previous case or have an es-tablished epidemiological link to a case (2), although 4 cases were only identified as a result of post-mortem testing of community deaths.