GHANA'S COVID-19 DEATHS RISE TO 10 OUT OF 636 RECORDED CASES.Ghana has recorded two more Covid-19 deaths, bring the total to 10, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service confirmed today Tuesday 14th April, 2020, at a press conference in Accra on. He said out of the 636 confirmed Covid-19 cases, “currently, we have only two critically ill people with 10 deaths.”
Dr. Patrick Aboagye also added that 17 patients being treated for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus have recovered. “Currently we have 83 people in that category.
A significant number have tested the first negative but we have 17 who have recorded double negatives and are obviously clinically cured.” He added. He further disclosed that out of the 636 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country, 208 who are all well, asymptomatic, or in mild condition are being treated at home and in isolation centres across the country.
For the 66 patients who have had their first negative test after contracting the disease, the Director-General said they will be tested again and “chances are that they will all test negative again.” He said Greater Accra remains Ghana’s the leading centre of the outbreak with 452 cases. The three-week partial lockdown in some parts of the country, including Greater Accra, Kasoa and Kumasi is on Day 16 as part of the measures to enhance curb the spread of the disease in the country. According to the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Ghana is doing 1,265 per every one million persons, making her lead in Africa and 14th globally. By ; Akgri M. Daniel
