It added that it recorded no new Covid-19 related death for the period under review
The ministry also said that the test positively rate is 11.6%, adding that, no case is currently on oxygen therapy while 37 cases were discharged after at least 10 days of monitoring from the day they tested positive but evaded institutional isolation and none from Covid-19 treatment center
Presently in The Gambia, confirmed positive Covid-19 cases are 12,197, 96 active cases, 11,733 recoveries and 368 deaths.
According to the age-sex distribution of confirmed Covid-10 cases in The Gambia, about 59% of the confirmed cases are males while about 58% of the confirmed cases are 40 years below and according to the report, “this excludes the 27 confirmed cases whose demographic information are not yet available.
In the Ministry’s recommendation, it called for strengthening community-based surveillance in all regions to increase awareness and testing rates, intensify risk communication and community engagement activities on Ciovid-19 at the community level, including at ‘Lumos,’ in a bid to curtail community transmission and dispel misinformation and denial and vaccine hesitancy among others.
