Covid-19: Ghana has reached the Peak of its Infection Curve – GHS
The GHS says, the pandemic situation will not escalate if Ghanaians continue adhering to various preventive measures
Jonas Danquah 
Data on Ghana’s rate of Covid-19 infections shows the country’s case count has peaked, according to a top official of the Ghana Health Service (GHS).
Director of Public Health at the GHS, Dr Ebenezer Badu Sarkodie, said on Tuesday [ May 5, 2020] that the rate of infection is yet to decline, but this will only happen if the preventive protocol for the virus are adhered to.
“We are not off the hook yet; but then if we continue the way we are doing now – adhering to the various social distancing and adhering to the various individual preventive measures – these will let us come down from where we are,” he said during the Ministry of Information briefing on Ghana’s anti-Covid-19 efforts.
Tuesday’s press briefing at the Ministry of Information Press Centre also addressed a number of issues, key among them, Ghana’s Rapid Diagnostic Testing (RDT) plans for the Covid-19.
Ghana has recorded 2,719 coronavirus cases as of May 4, 2020, with 18 deaths and 294 recoveries. The country has tested over 129,000 suspected cases since March.
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Answering the question on where Ghana was on the Covid-19 infection curve, Dr Sarkodie explained that because Ghana started an aggressive and enhanced contact tracing early on – for instance testing a lot of people who were not even showing symptoms – only a few people tested positive for the virus from a large pool of samples.
He said the best data that Ghana has been using to plot the bell-shaped curve that pinpoints the country’s position in terms of infection rate, are results from samples received from different parts of the country – that is from March 12, 2020, when the first case was confirmed.
