Gambia’s Vice President Dr Isatou Touray has tested negative for coronavirus just over a week after testing positive for the disease. Dr Touray tested positive for the disease on July 29 and has since been self-isolating. Several other ministerial colleagues have also tested positive. But a statement from the Office[Read More…]
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Coronavirus: Gambia Registers 155 New Cases
An additional 155 people in the Gambia have tested positive for new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to figures from the country’s Ministry of Health. The number of confirmed cases is now 1090. The disease have also claimed the lives of three people in the last 24 hours[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia Registers 136 New Cases
An additional 136 people in the Gambia have tested positive for new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to figures from the country’s Ministry of Health. 30 per cent of the confirmed cases are health officials from the Bundung Maternal and Child Health Hospital. The number of confirmed cases[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia Goes Into Lockdown
Lockdown restrictions have been imposed in the Gambia due to an alarming surge of coronavirus in the country, President Adama Barrow has announced. A night curfew has been imposed in all parts of the country from 22:00 hrs to 05:00 hrs and violators face a D5,000 fine. Only persons on[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia Registers 128 New Cases
The Gambia has registered another 128 new cases of coronavirus. According to figures from the country’s Ministry of Health, 799 people have contracted the disease since March 2020. An additional two unnamed people have also died of the disease, taking the number of deaths to 16. Despite the increasing number[Read More…]
President Barrow Reveals Negative Covid-19 Test
President Adama Barrow of the Gambia has tested negative for coronavirus. President Barrow took the test after his vice president, Dr Isatou Touray, tested positive for the disease last week. Several ministers who had contact with the vice president have also tested positive. A media statement from the President’s Office[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia Records 173 New Cases
The Gambia registers 4 new deaths and 173 new confirmed cases of covid19. The Gambia has recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day with 173 new patients, taking the tally to 1,39,230, while more than 80 people lost their lives in the last 24 hours, the[Read More…]
Gambia For All Party Describes Covid-19 Crisis As A Threat To National Stability
Recent releases from the State House and other media networks reveal the gravity of the crisis that this country is now going through with regard to the dangerous spread of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus. The information coming out of the Ministry of Health and the State House indicates a national[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia’s Finance Minister, Others Tested Positive
(JollofNews) – The Office of the President informs the public that three Cabinet Ministers, Honourable Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mambureh Njie and Honourable Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Fafa Sanyang, and Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Amie Fabureh have tested positive for COVID-19. The public is reminded that ‘Regulation[Read More…]
Coronavirus: Gambia Registers 77 New Cases
The Gambia has today registered 77 new cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 403. At least eight people have died from the disease in the small West African nation. The latest figures were released a few hours after the country’s vice president[Read More…]
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