The total number of recovered cases in Ghana for the novel Coronavirus pandemic has increased by 16.
This brings to 99 the total number of recovered cases in Ghana. While the recovered cases increase, so do the new cases.
The total COVID-19 cases in the country have thus shot up from 641 to 834, the GHS reported.
“The Ghana Health Service is supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples which have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise. This is after some 57,000 samples have already been successfully tested as at April 15th 2020. In the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive. This will bring Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment,” a statement from the Ghana Health Service explained.
Regional breakdown
Greater Accra – 685
Ashanti Region – 59
Eastern Region – 51
Northern Region -11
Volta Region – 9
Upper West Region – 8
Upper East Region – 8
North East Region -1
Western Region -1
Central Region- 1
The president is expected to address the nation on Sunday on measures the country is expected to take in the fight against the pandemic.
It is not clear yet whether the president will extend the number of days for the lock down in the two regions or may announce a nationwide lock as has been proposed by some health and security experts.
