One of the new cases (56) is a hitherto probable case who is epi-link to confirmed case 49 who was a travel companion from Senegal. Health officials say that case 57 tested negative for covid-19 at the commencement of his quarantine period.
“All but two of the laboratory results received returned negative for covid-19, while 117 persons were newly taken into quarantine, six new people have been discharged (2 transferred to the treatment center),” says the Health Ministry.
According to the ministry’s update, the newly quarantine include six high-risk contacts linked to cases 46 and 52, noting that 109 people of the newly quarantined are the new arrivals into the country by a SN Brussels flight.
The ministry added that the remaining two are individuals who were picked from different locations on account of recently coming from countries where local transmission is ongoing.
The Gambia currently has 464 people under quarantine, 28 active and 5 probable cases.
The former Interior minister and the party leader of Gambia Moral Party (GMP), Mai Ahmad Fatty, has broken his silence on the incident that led to the alleged assassination of late Haruna Jatta of Kanilai by the ECOMIG forces as well as the Faraba Faraba Bantang scuffle leading to loss of lives.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad says in a dispatch that efforts are ongoing by The Gambia government to secure the evacuation of about thirty six (36) Gambian Migrant Workers currently in Lebanon.
Senegal will embark on the local production of Covid-19 vaccines for not only the country but also for Africa.
Liane Sallah, chairperson of Tourism and Travel Association of the Gambia (TTAG), said in an interview with this medium that ‘tourists coming to the destination Gambia have nothing to do with the airport opening as everything have to do with how The Gambia as a country is dealing with covid-19.”
