Gambia registers 2 new covid-19 deaths
Sep 24, 2020, 12:24 PM
The Gambia has registered two new deaths of covid-19, which bring the total number of covid-19 related deaths to 110.
“This represents a 3.5% test positivity rate (4 out of 114 total tests performed). The median age of the new cases is 32 years (range: 22 to 60 years).”
At least 114 new laboratory test results received from NPHL of which none returned indeterminant / inconclusive.
The reports states that 202 new COVID-19 patients recovered and got discharged with 37 people discharged from quarantine.
“No person was newly taken into quarantine. The country currently has 2 people in quarantine, 1,063 active cases and a crude
case-fatality ratio of 3.2%.”
Meanwhile, Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday reported 16 new cases, bringing the total number of 15, 190 cases, 313 deaths with 1,808 under treatment.
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