11-day old baby, 24 other children contract coronavirus in the Ashanti Region
Officials in KATH have expressed worry over the trend
Jonas Danquah 
The Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has recorded 25 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic in Ghana.
Fourteen (14) of the cases resulting in two deaths were recorded last year, while the beginning of this year had also seen nine confirmed cases and one death, according to the authorities.
In a brieifng with the press in Kumasi, Head of the Directorate, Professor Sampson Antwi disclosed that the latest confirmed cases involved an 11-day old baby.
He said three of the cases recorded in January, this year, had already been treated and the children discharged, while the rest were being dealt with.
Prof. Antwi stressed that those cases recorded last year had an age range between three months to 14 years.
He however expressed concern over a worrying trend of more minors contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Ashanti Region.
According to him, the troubling trend could be attributed to the new strain of the virus.
“We are having a huge surge in COVID positive cases and the disease initially, children were said to be spared. We had 14 the whole of last year but this year, just the spate of 10-days, we got 9 positive cases,” he told JoyNews as quoted by Pulsegh.
“Our realisation is that the second wave of the pandemic could be more deadly given the high rate of infections and deaths globally,” he noted.
Prof. Antwi said the Hospital had created a holding area and an isolation centre to take care of children who show symptoms of the disease.
He assured that the authorities were up to the task, and had put in place adequate measures to manage the situation.
