COVID-19: Thirteen more die in Ghana

13 persons have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ghana pushing the country's death toll to 390.

The active cases have also spiked to 3,940 as 625 new cases have been recorded by the Ghana Health Service (GHS).

The overall case count since the disease outbreak in the country is pegged at 63,883

“The total number of active positives we have ever recorded is about 63,883. We have tested about 757,000 plus people with a cumulative positivity of 8.4 percent and our current active cases is roughly about 3,940. We have recorded 390 deaths so far, and you can see that there has rapid escalation in the last few weeks on the number of deaths.”the Director-General of the GHS, Dr. Patrick Kumah Aboagye  said on Thursday, January 28, 2021

He explained that the surge in cases is due to the continuous breach of the safety protocols.

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He further stated that all 16 regions in the country have registered coronavirus cases with the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western, Eastern, and Central regions leading with the highest rate of infections.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Child Health Directorate at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital has expressed concern over a worrying trend of more minors contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Ashanti Region.

He also said the hospital has been overstretched as a results of handling many COVID-19 cases - children inclusive - and is in dire need of space.

“The COVID strain that we are having now is really also affecting children seriously. If in less than 2-weeks we are getting 9 cases, we don’t know where we are going to go when we are already full,” says Prof Antwi.

“We are not in the position even to bring new cases. I don’t mean COVID. Anybody who is sick when you come here, we will just triage you in front [of the hospital] probably in an ambulance that you came in with.

“If there’s something that we need to do for you, we can do to stabilize you and send you back because our wards are full,” he explained