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The President of The Republic of The Gambia, His Excellency (HE) Adama Barrow was the first to take the COVID-19 vaccine, launching the COVAX Vaccination rollout at the Statehouse in Banjul on 10^th March 2021.

Banjul International Airport, 2^nd March, 2021

World Health Organization (WHO) Gambia trained 60 local journalists on prevention and management of misinformation in the context of COVID-19.  From 18^th to 19^th January 2021, journalists were equipped with skills to deal with misconceptions and fake news like “COVID-19 is over".

BANJUL, Saturday, 28 March 2020: The Gambia, this afternoon, received an assortment of medical supplies - 20, 000 test kits, 1000, 000 masks, 740 sets of protective clothing  and 1000 sets of protective  shields – as donation from  Jack Ma and Alibaba Foundations from China.  The items are part of a continent-wide gesture from the Foundations to support 54 African countries with 1.1 million test kits, 5.4 milli

In response to the ongoing outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (nCOV) in Wuhan Province in China and its subsequent spread around the world, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of The Gambia in collaboration with WHO and partners has so far taken the following measures:

“Blood donation to save lives”, was conceived by the UN Heads of Agencies as part of activities marking UN@74, which is in line with WHO’s challenge to countries to get 100% of their blood from voluntary blood donation.

BANJUL, 3 SEPTEMBER 2019: “We value the impact of the work of the World Health Organization on the lives of our populations and its leadership in steering global health”.  These were the words of the Honorable Minister of Health of the Republic of the Republic of The Gambia, Dr.