At least 14 persons have been confirmed positive on Monday, after health officials tested some 7461 contacts out of the 15,000 samples taken.
“After testing 7461 of these contacts as at yesterday, we found 14 positives, representing 0.18 per cent, the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, told a Press conference Tuesday.
According to him, the recent statistics from Noguchi Institute indicate less community spread of the Coronavirus.
“While this is still early, it suggests that the community spread is relatively limited. More testing will, however, provide a clearer picture in the coming days. In total, routine surveillance and contact tracing has yielded 287 positives of which 49 have been discharged for home treatment, 228 are responding well to treatment, three have fully recovered and five with underlying health conditions have died,” he indicated.
He continued :”Aside the routine surveillance we followed up to trace the contacts of all the positives. Contacts of over 19000 persons has been made with samples from a total of over 15,000 contacts collected so far. In Greater Accra over 8,000 of such contacts have been made.”
On April 06, 73 new cases of the novel Coronavirus were confirmed bringing Ghana’s total count to 287.
“The regional distribution of the cases are as follows: Greater Accra Region has most cases (256) followed by the Ashanti Region (18), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).”
The update further revealed that a total of 172 cases were reported from the routine and enhanced surveillance activities and those from travellers under mandatory quarantine in both Accra and Tamale are 115.
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