By Adama Makasuba
Latest report has indicated that The Gambia coronavirus pandemic cases have increased to twenty. The two confirmed persons are said to be in their twenties.
Dr Mustapha Bittaye, acting Director of Health at the Ministry of Health, said: “Two cases have been registered bringing the total number cases confirmed in the country to 20.”
“One of the two cases is the first case registered in western two region. Both cases are in their 20s but were taken into quarantine in different circumstances,” he said.
Dr Biattaye added: “While one has been in quarantine for being a close contact of eleventh case, the other was taken into quarantine on account of recently returning from Senegal.”
The country which was on the verge of getting rid of the virus after having only one active case suddenly experienced a spike in rise of the disease in the space of two weeks.
However, many of new cases are reported to have travelled into the country from Senegal which has confirmed more than thousand (1000) cases of the virus with 59 deaths.
Meanwhile, a 50-year-old Senegalese national also tested positive of the virus days before the country confirmed its twentieth case.
Dr Bittaye said the patient was among mass testing held in Bakau, added that “both the newly confirmed and the probable test results are results of samples collected from the mass screening held in Bakau.”