With the latest development, the country still has a total of 3, 684 positive cases and 121 deaths since the confirmation of the first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Gambia on the 16th March 2020.
The Gambia, however, has 30 COVID-19 patients in treatment or self-isolation (active cases).
6 persons were discharged from self-isolation. No person is in quarantine.
2 new COVID-19 patients received psychological first aid this week.
Meanwhile, the Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday reported 15 new positive cases bringing its total confirmed positive cases to 15, 708. It has registered 15,330 recoveries, 326 deaths and 45 under treatment.
As part of measures to enhance social distancing amid coronavirus outbreak, the United Nation Development program (UNDP) in partnership with The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry GCCI) last Thursday donated a new 30-seater mini-bus worth over three million dalasis to The Gambia Prison Services (GPS).
Agriculture Minister Amie Fabureh has called on donors, partners and other stakeholders to support the farming community in the country.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it’s concern about the resurgence of coups after the coups in Mali in 2020 and 2021 and the current one in Guinea Conakry, vowing to review and strengthen democracy in the sub-region.
Imam Ebrima Sillah of Lasso Warf Mosque in Banjul has condemned in strongest terms the “provocative remarks” by the French President Emmanuel Macron and use of a picture to caricature the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in order to stir anger from Muslim Ummah across the World.
