This is according to the 249 COVID-19 situation report of The Gambia for the 16th and 17th January 2021 (published on the 18th January 2021).
The country also officially registered 1 new COVID-related death, bringing the total number to 128.
The country’s Ministry of Health added that 106 COVID-19 patients are currently in treatment or self-isolation (active cases).
Five COVID-19 patients were discharged from treatment while 96 persons are in hotel quarantine.
Meanwhile the Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday reported 168 cases, bringing its total number of positive cases to 23,392. It registered 19,531 recoveries, 536 deaths while 3,324 are under treatment.
The Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday reported 79 positive cases which brings the country’s total infection total to 4,328. The capital Dakar registered the highest number – 73% of the total registered infections.
Nian Sarang Jobe, the former staff of The Point, has narrated before the Court of Celle, Germany, how Deyda Hydara was killed on 16 December 2004 in a trial involving ex-‘jungler’ Bai Lowe.
Justice Landing M. Sanneh, the presiding Judge of the High Court in Basse, in the Upper River Region (URR) has sentenced Bakary Jallow, a driver by profession to death for reportedly killing one Alieu Sanyang.
Karanta Darboe was on the 6th July, 2021, convicted by Principal Magistrate Isatou Janneh-Njie of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court and sentenced to a total fine of D105,000 in default to serve 10 years 6 months imprisonment on ten counts of criminal offences.
