Ghana’s Covid-19 cases as of Sunday, April 11 has drastically increased to 566 with the addition of 158 new cases according to the Ghana Health Service.
On the website of the Health Service, they report that a number of measures introduced to control and prevent further spread of the disease have resulted in a sudden increase in cases.
“As of April 11, a total of 37,954 persons have been tested with 566 being positive for COVID-19. The breakdown of the 566 positive cases are as follows: four have been treated, discharged and tested negative, 552 cases have been categorised as mild disease on treatment, two moderate to severe cases, none currently on ventilators and eight have died.
“Of the 566 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 292 were reported from the routine surveillance, 159 from enhanced surveillance activities and 115 from travellers under mandatory quarantine in both Accra and Tamale.”
Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern, Western, Volta, Northern, North East, Upper East, and Upper West.
Greater Accra remains Ghana’s epicentre of the outbreak with 452 cases.
