The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced a spike in Ghana’s confirmed Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases bringing the total to 834 with one more death.
The current count is a result of a backlog of laboratory samples that have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise.
This involves 57,000 samples that have already been successfully tested as of April 15th, 2020.
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According to the GHS, in the first batch of the backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive and thus bring Ghana’s total case count to 834.
The Service, however, assured the general public this does not represent new infections that are occurring but only represents results from tests of a backlog of samples.
“The laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days, all the testing would be completed.”
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“Total samples that have so far been tested stand at 60,916 with 1.37 % testing positive.”
“The results of this backlog of samples when released do not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report. Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East,” the GHS said on its website.
Meanwhile, 16 more people have reportedly recovered from the virus infection and bringing the total number of recoveries in Ghana to 99.
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