Senegal's COVID-19 cases surpass 7,000 mark

Passengers have their temperature checked before boarding a shuttle boat heading for Dakar on Goree Island, Senegal, on July 1, 2020. Four months after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 2 in Senegal, the country's confirmed cases surpassed the 7,000 mark on Thursday. (Photo by Eddy Peters/Xinhua)