IMF Executive Board concludes 2nd review under Extended Credit Facility Arrangement with Gambia & approves US$ 14.4M disbursement
Jun 4, 2021, 11:22 AM
This is according to the 173rd national situation report since the confirmation of the first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Gambia, on 16 March 2020.
The report added that no covid-19 patients recovered nor discharged.
The ministry also reported that no new person was taken in to quarantine and no new persons were discharged from quarantine.
Meanwhile, The Gambian delegation has returned after a 4-day official visit to understudy the Senegalese IMS.
The country currently has zero persons in quarantine, 882 active cases and a crude case-fatality ratio of 3.2%.
President Adama Barrow has requested from ECOWAS the extension of the mandate of ECOMIG in The Gambia as he addressed the 57th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Niamey on Monday.
Mrs. Fatou Jagne-Senghore, of Article 19 and a seasoned human rights activist appeared before the TRRC to help the Commission in its findings from the NGO perspective.
Lamin F. Fatty, the agriculture minister of The Gambia College Students Union has spoken about the devastating impact of the covid-19 pandemic especially on schools and those in food supply chain in the country.