“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.
The National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC) Wednesday, 21 October, kicked-start a weeklong training programme known as Combating Covid-19 Impairment Training at Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites, Juffureh in North Bank Region (NBR).
Ebrima B. Njie,former prison officer, said in his testimony yesterday before TRRC that prison’s chief officer, Kalilu Sanneh, was bribed to help the escape of former Taranga FM boss, Ablie Ceesay from Mile 2 (the state central prison).
Lamin Darboe, the second prosecution witness in the case involving Bakary Sarr, Assistant Bailiff at the High Court in Banjul, who was charged with obtaining money by false pretence and fraud, on the 7th October, 2021, testified before Principal Magistrate Isatou Janneh-Njie of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court.
The Basse High Court on the 23 February 2022 has sentenced one Pateh Jallow to death after over four years of a marathon legal proceedings.
