DAKAR (Reuters) – Nearly 100 Senegalese soldiers tested positive this week for the coronavirus after returning home from a deployment in neighbouring Gambia, a military source said on Friday.
The source said testing continued of the contingent of 600 soldiers, who are part of a force deployed in 2017 to enforce President Adama Barrow’s election victory over then-President Yahya Jammeh.
The source did not say how the soldiers may have been infected.
Senegal has recorded 14,193 cases of COVID-19, including 293 deaths. Gambia, which is mostly surrounded by Senegal, has confirmed 3,293 cases and 99 deaths.
(Reporting by Diadie Ba; Writing by Aaron Ross; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
