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Senegal’s COVID-19 cases reach 5,000 benchmark
DAKAR, June 14, 2020 (BSS/XINHUA) — Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action reported on Sunday 94 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in Senegal to 5,090 cases.
During the daily briefing of the situation of COVID-19, health ministry’s spokesperson Dr. Alyose Waly Diouf said that a total of 1,232 testing were carried out during the last 24 hours, among which 94 returned positive, including 79 followed contact cases and 14 cases due to community transmission.
After a daily record of 27 imported cases of COVID-19 on Saturday at Blaise Diagne International Airport, only one imported case was recorded this Sunday.
The number of patients discharged from hospitals increased by 116 to 3,344, while the number of patients in intensive care units remains at 22.
The death toll related to COVID-19 remained at 60 since the outbreak of the pandemic in Senegal on March 2.
On Saturday evening, Senegalese president Macky Sall called for the relaunch of national economy. On his twitter account, Sall praised “the spirit of national resilience” and called for mobilization of the population to relaunch Senegalese economy.
During the Cabinet meeting this week, Sall also decided to put in place measures to accelerate the operationalization of the formal and informal private sectors, which involve tax rebates, reducing domestic debts and
setting up a financing mechanism with 200 billion CFA francs (about 344 million U.S. dollars).
Senegalese government has eased some restrictive measures imposed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, but the country is still on state of emergency, and all scheduled international air travels are suspended until June 30 to and out of Senegal.
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