35 new covid-19 cases registered with zero death
Aug 28, 2020, 12:19 PM
The country has registered 35 new coronavirus confirmed cases with no death, bringing the total of country’s infections 2,743.
According to them, this represents a 2.2% test positivity rate (8 out of 358 total tests performed).
The median age of the new cases is 33 years (range: 16 to 62 years).
“The 358 new laboratory test results received (46 from MRC and 312 from NPHL). No new test returned indeterminant / inconclusive.”
“Out of the 323 passengers recently brought by 2 SN Brussels flights, 5 were taken into quarantine for not being in possession of valid negative COVID-19
PCR test certificates.”
“Ten new COVID-19 patients newly recovered and got discharged. The country currently has 5 people in quarantine, 14 active cases and a crude
case-fatality ratio of 3.3%.”
Meanwhile, the Senegalese Ministry of Health yesterday reported 18 new cases, bringing the total number to 16, 107 cases with 15, 627 recoveries, 333 deaths and 146 under treatment.
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