The Gambia latest covid-19 news came the 239 national situation report since the confirmation of the first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Gambia, on the 16th March 2020.
The country’s Ministry of Health said no new COVID-19 death was recorded.
It also said that 20 high-risk contacts [of recently confirmed cases] have been identified and their follow-up began in earnest.
No new patients got discharged and no people were newly taken into hotel quarantine.
The country currently has no people in hotel quarantine, 31 active cases and a crude case-fatality ratio of 3.3%.
Meanwhile, following the introduction of the curfew in Senegal’s two main cities of Dakar and Thies, youth on Wednesday were seen burning tyres, smashing cars in defiance to government’s position, saying “saying no curfew.”
The curfew starts from 9 p.m. and ends at 5 a.m. for 12 days.
In case of any extension, President Macky Sall must get approval of the National Assembly.
The Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday reported 220 positive cases, bringing its total number of cases to 20, 376. The country recorded 17,885 recoveries, 433 deaths while 2,052 are under treatment.
“In the Gambia and elsewhere around the world, journalists continue to be harassed, attacked both physically and verbally, beaten, arrested, detained, threatened and killed for doing their job,” the Gambia Press Union (GPU) says in a statement as it joins the rest of the world yesterday 2 November 2022 to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes committed against Journalists.
Nianija residents in the Central River Region north, who participated in the ChildFund parenting sessions have hailed ChildFund for the programme.
Lawyer Sagarr Jahateh, the defence counsel representing Sainabou Mbye, Cherno Mbye, and Kibili Dembele, in the on-going alleged manslaughter case, has urged Justice Sidi K. Jobarteh, the vacation judge presiding over the case to either “conditionally or unconditionally” release the applicants.
President Adama Barrow has vowed to discharge his duty as the Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces to keep the country safe as he ordered the deployment of the National Guard Unit of the Armed Forces on standby for police duty.
