Ghana has confirmed nine additional COVID-19 cases; six from Greater Accra and three from the Ashanti region, the Ghana Health Service has said.

This brings the total COVID-19 cases recorded in the country to 214 with five deaths.

One of the patients in the Greater Accra region is a 37-year-old woman with no history of travel or contact with a confirmed case.

One is a repeat test of a traveller under quarantine, who was initially negative but become positive on a repeat test.

Four are contacts of confirmed cases with no symptoms and were detected during the enhanced contact-tracing and testing.

Of the three cases from the Ashanti region, two are Ghanaians who travelled to Ghana from France within the past 14 days and the third one is a Ghanaian who has no history of travel out of the country nor contact with any confirmed case.

Currently, the number of regions reporting cases are as follows: Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern, Upper West Eastern and Upper East Region. The Greater Accra Region has most cases (189) followed by the Ashanti Region (12), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).

Most of the cases are reported from routine/enhanced surveillance activities.

Cases from travellers under mandatory quarantine are 90.