By Yusupha Jobe
The Ministry of Health has installed a screening centre at the Amdalai border as travelers coming into the country formed queues to be screened.
The installment centre comes days after Senegal confirmed first and second cases of coronavirus.
Tuesday, top officials from the Ministry including the Minister, Dr Amadou Samateh went to launch the screening centre to ascertain his ministry’s level of preparedness against the coronavirus.
Since the outbreak of the virus in the neighbouring country, Senegal, the government of the Gambia started intensifying on screening at all border entry points of the country in order to prevent the possible importation of the coronavirus case into the country, as more health workers were station across the borders in the country.
Health workers could be seen busy screening travelers including tourists entering the country as the screening points now mounts right at the border entry point between the two countries.
The reports have it that immigration officers were also seen at the same border post with the health worker checking on any person entering the country.
As the outbreak of the corona virus continuing to spread wide in the Sub-Saharan Africa and including the Senegambia regions, Gambians in and outside the country are concern about the country’s readiness in preventing the spread of the virus into the country.