By Adama Makasuba
Ministry of health has on Thursday said 51 people in quarantine will be discharged after completing 14 days mandatory quarantine rule.
It comes a day after two Gambian recovered from the deadly coronavirus disease. The two are the 28-year-old Gambian lady who was first tested positive of the virus after travelling from UK while the second is the 71-year-old man who also travelled from France.
Dr Betty who spoke on behalf of the health minister at a news conference, said: “51 individuals completed mandatory 14-day long quarantine and were just discharged as I said they will be discharged soon.”
He said eleven new laboratory tests results have been received by the ministry today and they were all negative.
This means that now a total of 148 people remained in quarantine including 3 non-Gambian who days back sneaked in after running from quarantine in Senegal. All the country’s four cases were imported, tow recovered, one died, and one under treatment