The Finance Minister Mambureh Njie and 

two other cabinet ministers have tested positive for Covid-19, State House has announced. 

This comes day’s after the Vice President Dr. Isatou Touray tested positive for the virus and the president had gone into self-isolation as precautionary measures. 

“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,” a statement from State House said on Sunday night. 

“The public is reminded that ‘Regulation No. 6’ of the Public Health (Dangerous Infectious Diseases) Protection Regulations, 2020 is in force,  thus  the compulsory wearing of face masks, temporary closure of non-essential public places and the prohibition of public and social gatherings.”

As cases surge in the Greater Banjul Areas the mayor of Banjul has called on the government to enforce a lockdown. 

In an emotional plea to the Health minister on Sunday Mayor Malick Lowe said: “People are dying in the Greater Banjul Areas. People are dying in their homes (without medical care). The frontline workers are dying. Please help us.”