By Adama Makasuba
The Ministry of health has announced over the weekend that 98 people tested positive for coronavirus but there was no death recorded.
According to the 130th national situation reports released by the Ministry which states that “since the confirmation of the first case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in The Gambia, on the 17th March 2020 98 new cases registered, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases ever confirmed in the country to 2,895. This represents a 27.5% test positivity rate (98 out of 357 total tests performed).”
“The median age of the new cases is 33.5 years (range: 9 to 78 years). 357 new laboratory test results received from MRCG and NPHL. Of these, 8 new tests returned indeterminant 8 new recoveries registered, bringing the cumulative number of recoveries, to date, to 751 (26% recovery rate).”
“Whereas no people were newly taken into quarantine, no new discharges were also made The country currently has 44 people in quarantine, 2,048 active cases, 241 probable cases and a crude case-fatality ratio of 3.3% the bulk of the active cases are asymptomatic and are as such self-isolating at home pending the manifestation of symptom,” the Ministry’s statement stated.