Ghana’s Coronavirus cases rise to 214

Nine new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the country, the Health Service has confirmed.

According to the Ghana Health Service, 6 of the 9 cases were recorded in the Greater Accra Region and the remaining 3 were recorded in Ashanti Region.

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Explaining further GHS revealed one of the cases in the Greater Accra Region is of a 37-year-old woman who has no travel history. There is also no record that she has come into contact with a confirmed Coronavirus patient.

Another case is a traveller under mandatory quarantine who had initially tested negative but a repeat test proved otherwise.

Four are contacts of confirmed cases with no symptoms and were detected during the enhanced contact tracing and testing.

Of the three cases from the Ashanti region, two are Ghanaians who travelled into the country from France within the past 14 days.

However, the third case is a Ghanaian who has no travel history nor contact with any confirmed case.

As of now, the statistics stand at 214 confirmed cases, 5 deaths, and 31 confirmed recovery cases.

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NOTE: The Greater Accra Region has recorded the most cases of 189 followed by the Ashanti Region with 12.

The Northern Region has recorded 10 cases while the Upper West Region, Eastern Region and Upper East Region have all recorded single cases.