Ghana’s COVID-19 cases now 1,671, death toll jumps to 16
Ghana’s COVID-19 case count has increased to 1,671 up from the last updated figure of 1,550. This means, 121 new cases have been detected.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Aboagye, announced the latest figures during a press briefing on Tuesday, April, 28, 2020.
“Ghana currently has 1,671 cases confirmed as at this morning. Out of this 568 has come from general surveillance which those who fall ill and approached the hospital and were tested. 105 still remains part of the earlier quarantined in Tamale and those we have from the enhanced tracing that’s the group that we actually went out to look for, we found a 1,113 bringing our total to 1,671.
“Currently, about 1,461 are well or no symptoms and are responding very well to treatment. We have about six who are moderate to critically ill, two (2) at UGMC, three (3) in Ga East, and one (1) in Korle-bu as we speak today all the other part of the country we do not have any other critical cases. For recoveries, we have recovered about 188 all these people have recovered and we are waiting on more for the second test to be discharged,” the Director-General of GHS said.
The Director-General GHS also revealed that Ghana had recorded five new deaths from the disease, bringing the death toll to 16.
Thirty-three more people have fully recovered from the virus, bring the total number of recoveries to 188.
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So far, 12 out of 16 of the country’s regions have been infected with COVID-19. The Greater Accra Region tops the list of regions that have been hit with the virus with 1,433 cases.