Gambia registers another imported Covid-19 case, 1 recovered

The deputy Director of Health Promotion at the Ministry of Health Sanjally Trawally today told press officers that Gambia registered another imported Covid-19 case and one recovered, which made the totaled confirmed cases to 24.

He said the confirmed case is 47 years old male from Guinea Bissau and a driver at the Nigerian Consulate in Guinea Bissau.

“He came with the consul who was to receive treatment at Medicare Clinic Gambia but were both intercepted at the border and taken into quarantine. He was taken into quarantine on the 14th May for entering the country.”

He explained that to their road to Gambia from Bissau, the duo spent three nights in Ziguinchor, a city in the Southern Senegalese region of Cassamance.

“Both travellers had their samples collected on the 15th May and the test results came out the following day (16^th May), while the test result of his travelling companion returned negative and he tested positive for Covid-19.”

Mr. Trawally further stated that out of the 22-laboratory test received, 16 are new conducted tests, 6 are repeat test results and one of the 22 results returned negative.

He added that one of the negative repeat test results is the sample taken from an existence Covid-19 case, who have for the second time produced a negative result. “This is indicative of his recovery from Covid-19.”

While 16 people where taken into quarantine, he said 21 individuals where discharged after tested negative for Covid-19 upon completion of their mandatory quarantine period. “The country has 69 people under quarantine, 10 active cases and probable case.”