By Nelson Manneh
The Gambia has registered sixty-eight new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of cases confirmed in the country, to two thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three.
The country currently has forty-four people under quarantine with one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five active cases and ninety-six COVID-19 related deaths. Two hundred and sixty-one are said to be probable cases.
Modou Njai, the Director of Health Promotion and Education at the Ministry of Health, said out of one hundred and ninety-nine new laboratory test results received from the Medical Research Council MRCG and the National Public Health Lab NPHL, twenty-one new tests returned undetermined.
“Two hundred and eighty-one new recoveries have been registered, bringing the cumulative number of recoveries to date, to one thousand, and thirty-two,” he said.
Njai said no one has been taken into quarantine and no new discharge was also made; that the bulk of the active cases, are asymptomatic and as such, are self-isolating at home, pending the manifestation of the symptoms of the disease.
