[ads1]
Ghana has recorded six more deaths from the novel Coronavirus.
This was made known by the Ghana Health Service on their Covid-19 website on Tuesday.
This has surged the country’s death toll to 358 from the previous 352.[ads2]
Meanwhile, Ghana’s active cases now sit at 2,174 from a previous 1,924 as of Monday, January 18, 2021.
This is after 366 new infections cases have been recorded nationwide, bringing the country’s case count to 58,431.
The new infections were from tests conducted on January 16, 2021.
Per the update from the Ghana Health Service, a total of 55,899 patients have successfully recovered and discharged with 98 cases in severe conditions while 36 have been considered as critical.[ads3]
Out of the total confirmed cases, 23,001 were from the General Surveillance; 34,429 cases from the Enhanced Contact Tracing, while 1,001 have been recorded from international travelers disembarking at the Kotoka International Airport since it was reopened on September 1, 2020, the update stated.
So far, a total of 717,279 tests have been conducted.
Out of this, 225,619 are from routine surveillance, 355,309 from contact tracing, and 136,351 from international travelers arriving through the Kotoka International Airport.
The positivity rate is 8.1 per cent.[ads4]
The Greater Accra and the Ashanti regions continue to be the epicenter of the virus in the country with cumulative cases of 33,017 and 11,401 respectively.
The rest are:
Western Region- 3,237
Eastern Region – 2,681
Central Region- 2,194
Bono East Region – 795
Volta Region – 790
Western North Region – 683
Bono Region- 644
Northern Region – 598
Ahafo Region- 537
Upper East Region – 399
Oti Region- 244
Upper West Region – 126
Savannah Region – 62
North East Region -22
– gna[ads5]
