Health
Minister Dr. Ahmad Lamin Samateh has informed that the country has only one
active case of novel coronavirus (covid-19), with no probable case.
Dr.
Samateh made these remarks on Friday at the Health Ministry’s daily press
briefing at his office in Banjul.
He
said six laboratory test results were received, and all tested negative for
covid-19; two of which were repeat test results of active case.
He
added that a second consecutive negative test result for each of the two cases
is indicative of recovery from covid-19; while one new person (Gambian) was
intercepted and taken into quarantine from the Jiboroh border post.
Health
minister said people were discharged after testing negative for coronavirus
upon completion of mandatory quarantine period; “out of a total of 105 low-risk
contacts of the recently confirmed cases, 99 were successfully followed up and
the country has 95 persons under quarantine.”
Dr.
Samateh has renewed calls on Gambians to adhere to the safety precaution
measures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Ministry of Health in
order to combat the spread of covid-19 in the country.
Meanwhile,
Mambury Njie, the minister of Finance and Economic Affairs has disclosed that
the government of The Gambia has released D160 million to fight the covid-19
pandemic in the country.
He
said this was a request from the Ministry of Health from a budgeted amount of
D512 million for covid-19.
“The
areas we have spent the D60 million are the allowances for the frontline
workers across the country, travel expenses, medical hospital equipment such as
ventilators in the health facilities across the country and some office
equipment, while D100 million has been spent on the people on quarantine to pay
their hotel accommodation and food,” he said.
Senegal
announces 57 new cases of covid-19
Senegalese
Ministry of Health yesterday announced 57 positive cases of covid-19, bringing
the total to 671 positive cases, 283 recoveries, 8 deaths and 380 under
treatment.
Africa
has confirmed 30,367 cases, 9,107 have recovered and 1,378 deaths.
In
the world 2,920,905 positive cases of covid-19 have been confirmed with 203,269
deaths, WHO reported yesterday.
