Ministry of health to discharge 51 people from quarantine

By Adama Makasuba

Ministry of health has on Thursday said 51 people in quarantine will be discharged after completing 14 days mandatory quarantine rule.

It comes a day after two Gambian recovered from the deadly coronavirus disease. The two are the 28-year-old Gambian lady who was first tested positive of the virus after travelling from UK while the second is the 71-year-old man who also travelled from France.

Dr Betty who spoke on behalf of the health minister at a news conference, said: “51 individuals completed mandatory 14-day long quarantine and were just discharged as I said they will be discharged soon.”

He said eleven new laboratory tests results have been received by the ministry today and they were all negative.

This means that now a total of 148 people remained in quarantine including 3 non-Gambian who days back sneaked in after running from quarantine in Senegal. All the country’s four cases were imported, tow recovered, one died, and one under treatment