This is according to the 233rd Covid-19 situation report of The Gambia for 28th December 2020 (published on 29 December 2020).
No new positive case was registered with the total since March still at 3,797.
Five Covid-19 patients are currently under treatment or in self-isolation (active cases).
No Covid-19 patient was discharged from treatment while 21 persons are in quarantine.
The Gambia Press Union (GPU) has learnt with sadness that some journalists have contracted the coronavirus in line of duty. The Union wishes all of them well and looks forward to seeing them back at practice.
President Adama Barrow, the leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) is optimistic of a landslide victory in the 2021 presidential elections, saying that if his campaign team continues the work they did in Naimina West and Kerr-Jarga by-elections, then it is guaranteed that NPP will win the election in 2021.
The acting director of Health Services Dr. Mustapha Bittaye yesterday told journalists at a press briefing that they have traced 71 contacts of newly confirmed cases.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the Ministry of Health, The Gambia Red Cross Society and other national partners has launched a covid-19 sensitisation campaign, which aims to engage over 1,500 community leaders in some 120 border communities in both Senegal and The Gambia.
