By Adama Makasuba
The Ministry of Health has said thirteen male and one female have died of coronavirus – taking the country’s virus death toll to 77.
But the Ministry added that all of them didn’t die on the same day – that it is samples taken from its 14th to the 17th August report.
“This is the 122nd national situation report since the confirmation of the first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Gambia, on the 17th March 2020.
14 new COVID-19 related deaths recorded, bringing the total number of deaths to 77 – a crude case-fatality ratio of 3.4%. Not all the said deaths occurred on a single day as sampling dates spanned from the 14th to the 17th August (14th- 6 samples; and 4 samples apiece for the 15th and 17th),” the ministry of health said.
“Samples of all 14 (13 males and 1 female) were collected posthumously. The median age, at death, of the cases (12 positives and 2 indeterminates) is 61 years (range: 26 to 90 years).”
“172 new cases registered, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases ever confirmed in the country to 2,288. This represents a 33% test positivity rate (172 out of 524 total tests performed). The median age of the new cases is 36 years (range: 2 months to 94 years).”
“20 new discharges effected from the treatment centres, bringing the cumulative number of recoveries to date to 435 (19.0% recovery rate)Laptops, printers and other gadgets have been provided to the NPHL by the World Bank Group to support the implementation of e-surveillance 524 new laboratory test results received from MRCG and NPHL. Of these, 11 new tests returned indeterminant.”