The Bank of Ghana Hospital in Accra will be used as a treatment centre for Very Important Personalities (VIPs) suffering who may contract COVID-19, the Minister of Health Kweku Agyeman-Manu has said.

The Health Minister disclosed this at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, 1 April 2020.

Mr Agyeman-Manu said: “I kept on telling people that the Ministry of Health does not have direct jurisdiction over the Bank of Ghana Hospital. We have had engagements with the Bank of Ghana and they have released two floors [of the BoG Hospital] to take care of 20 beds for our use because the facility does not belong to the Ministry of Health. The Bank of Ghana has agreed that their own people and some VIP personnel will be allowed there.”

Ghana's confirmed COVID-19 caseload has jumped from 161 to 195 with five deaths as of 1 April 2020, Mr Agyeman-Manu said.

Thirty-four new cases were recorded on Tuesday, 31 March.

The Greater Accra Region has 174 cases, the Northern Region has 10, the Ashanti Region has nine, the Upper West Region has one and the Eastern Region also has one case of COVID-19.

Three persons have recovered and have been discharged.