Ghana's COVID-19 cases jump to 287
Following measures put in place for enhanced contact-tracing and testing, Ghana has detected an increased number of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
As of 6 April 2020, a total of 287 cases of COVID-19 with five deaths have been recorded, the Ghana Health Service has confirmed.
The regional distribution of the cases are as follows: Greater Accra Region has most cases (258) followed by the Ashanti Region (18), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).
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.
The period for mandatory quarantine for travellers who arrived 21-22 March 2020 has ended.
In all, a total of 1,030 travellers were quarantined during the period.
Out of these, 79 (7.7%) were positive during the initial testing while 951 were negative.
Twenty-six among those that were initially negative were later found to have been positive at the exit screening, bringing to a total of 105, which constitutes 10.2% among the travellers that were quarantined.
Source: classfmonline.com
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