Dr Mustapha Bittaye, Acting Director of Health Services at the Ministry of Health has emphasised the need to practise social distancing as one sure way of flattening the curve of the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). He said this while giving the Ministry’s daily national situational report update on the viral disease pandemic.
This call is made in the wake of the seeming relaxation by the public, of regulations inherent in the State of public emergency declared by the President of the Republic Adama Barrow.
On the Coronavirus update, Dr Bittaye revealed that all the 5 new laboratory test results received by MRC Gambia are negative.
He reported that 5 additional people have been taken into quarantine; 4 of them sneaked into the country while the remaining one was a close contact of the recently confirmed cases.
He further disclosed that a total 61 people are on quarantine in one of the local hotels in the Greater Banjul Area and a total of 298 tests were conducted and 9 were positive; that 254 people completed quarantine, 241 contacts traced and 310 people completed follow-ups.
The acting director intimated that in terms of case management, public health facilities in Western 1, 2 and 3 and private facilities such as Medicare, Africmed, and Bafrow recently received IPCs and case management training.
