[ 2021-03-17 ]

Ghana records 698 COVID-19 deaths
The latest update from the country’s health
management body also confirmed that 48 other
people were in severe condition with 18 more in
critical condition.

It added that an additional 243 new cases of
infections had been recorded out of which 28 were
active, pushing the country’s active cases to
3,701 from a previous 3,673 as of Monday, March
15.

These cases, the GHS said, were being managed at
treatment sites and isolation centres across the
country, while some were under home management.

The new infections were from tests conducted as at
March 12, 2021. So far, a total of 83,829 people
had recovered and discharged.

The country has recorded a total of 88,228 cases
of the virus since it confirmed its first two
cases in March 2020.

Out of the total confirmed cases, 30,813 were from
the General Surveillance; 56,142 cases from the
Enhanced Contact Tracing, while 1,273 have been
recorded from international travellers
disembarking at the Kotoka International Airport
(KIA) since it was reopened on September 1, 2020.

Also, 953,041 tests had been conducted out of
which 290,368 were from routine surveillance,
475,943 from contact tracing, and 186,730 from
international travellers arriving through the KIA.
The positivity rate is 9.3 per cent.

Currently all 16 regions have an active case.

The Greater Accra Region remains the hotspot,
accounting for more than 50 per cent (1,679) of
active cases, with a cumulative case count of
49,091.

The Ashanti Region has 380 active cases while its
case count now stands at 15,101, followed by the
Western Region with 187 active cases and
cumulative cases of 5,524.

Others are: Eastern Region, 149 active cases, with
cumulative case count of 4,014; Central Region 295
active cases with total cases of 3,157; Volta
Region, 271 active cases, with total cases of
2,199; Bono East Region 71 active cases and 1,297
cumulative, and Northern Region 115 active cases
and cumulative of 1,520 and Upper East Region 66
active cases and 1,277 case tally

The rest are Western North Region 39 active cases,
834 cumulative, Bono Region 103 active cases,
1,135 cumulative, Ahafo Region, Nine active cases
and 679 cumulative, Oti Region 41 active and 370
cumulative, Upper West 93 active and 456
cumulative, Savannah Region, 15 active and 112
cumulative, and North East 64 active and 189
cumulative.

There are also 124 active cases from international
travelers at the KIA.

Ghana, on March 2, this year begun a mass
vaccination exercise in some regions after it took
delivery of some 600,000 doses of
Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines on February
24.

Government said it hoped to vaccinate about 20
million of the population to stem a further spread
of the virus.

Source - GNA

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