The Ministry of Health further said that the new covid-19 cases represented 37% positive test rate (131 out of the 350 total tests performed), adding that the maiden age of the new cases is 35 years (range 6 to 77 years)
“Three hundred and fifty (350) new laboratory test results received from MRCG and NPHL. Of these, 20 new tests returned in-determinant and 131 new tests were positive for covid-19,” says health ministry.
According to health officials, a new guideline for quarantine, isolation and testing has been developed and validated to address the challenges brought about by the sudden surge in the number of covid-19 cases.
“Twenty new discharges effected from the treatment centres, bringing the cumulative number of recoveries to date to 227(15.4%). Whereas 6 persons were newly taken into quarantine, no new discharges were made.”
The country currently has 341 people in quarantine, 1,197 active cases, 165 probable cases and a crude case-fatality ratio of 2.2%.
Meanwhile, the Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday registered 207 positive cases, bringing total number of infections in the country to 11,587; recoveries 7,532 with 242 deaths and 3,821 are receiving treatment.
Hamat Bah, the minister of Tourism and Culture has emphasised the need for domestic tourism in the country, arguing that The Gambia position in terms of domestic tourism still remains zero.
A serious land dispute has erupted between Perai Tenda and Waliba villages, both in the Tumana District of the Upper River Region, leaving a dozen people wounded. One compound has also reportedly been set on fire, with a fence of another compound been vandalised, The Point has been reliably informed.
One of The Gambia’s heritages that was left behind by the British and is still visible and useful till date is a well sunk in Bathurst in 1820.
The secretary general of The Gambia Moral Congress (GMC), Mai Ahmed Fatty, says he is in support of maintaining the Anti Crime Unit (ACU) of the Police Department describing it as “is good news to The Gambia” and said the unit “must stay” to significantly contain the crime rate in the country.
