Covid-19: Ghana’s Cases Shoots up to 287

Total deaths and recovery remain at five and three respectively

Covid-19: Ghana’s Cases Shoots up to 287

Ghana has recorded 73 more covid-19 cases, increasing the total tally of confirmed cases in the country to 287.

This was disclosed by the Ghana Health Service via its official website for covid-19 updates on 6th April 2020, 23:30.

Total deaths and recovery remain at five and three respectively.

The rise in the number of cases follows measures of enhanced contact tracing and testing, the Ghana Health Service said.

Details of the latest additions were however not given.

 

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So far, Greater Accra Region has most cases (258) followed by the Ashanti Region (18), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).

The period for mandatory quarantine for travellers who arrived between 21st and 22nd March 2020 as per the President’s directive has also ended.

This was part of enhanced measures to track the real number of persons who had contracted the infection in a bid to prevent a further spread.

In all, a total of 1,030 travellers were quarantined during the period.

But the GHS says out of these, 79 (7.7%) were positive during the initial testing while 951 were negative.

26 among those that were initially negative were found to have converted to be positive at the exit screening, bringing the number to a total of 105 which constitutes 10.2% among the travellers that were quarantined.