Coronavirus: Ghana’s case count up to 6,808; recoveries 2,070

25 Mai 2020

Accra, Ghana,  May 25 (Infosplusgabon) - Ghana has recorded 125 new coronavirus infections bringing the total to 6,808, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced on Monday.

There have been 72 more patients who have recovered taking the number to 2,070 while the death toll remains at 32.

Ghana has had more than 194,700 tests.

Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says stakeholder consultations are taking place on the way forward toward the easing of the coronavirus restrictions so that the social and economic lives of Ghanaians “can go back to normal”.

“I expect these consultations to conclude this week so that I can announce to Ghanaians a clear roadmap for easing the restrictions," he said at a virtual national Eid celebration on Sunday.

“We have to find a way back, but in safety, for we cannot be under these restrictions forever," he said.

President Akufo-Addo said his confidence in easing the restrictions is “fortified” by the hard fact that "the rate of deaths in Ghana among confirmed cases is very low – one per one million, i.e. 0.0001%, one of the lowest in Africa, and, indeed, in the world, this, despite the very high number of tests we are carrying out”.

He said the numbers of severe virus cases that have been hospitalised have been persistently low since the outbreak.

“The fear that our hospitals would be overburdened, and, indeed, overwhelmed has, so far, again by the grace of God, not materialised."

President Akufo-Addo said Ghana now has a more robust mechanism for enforcing its central strategy of defeating the virus – the application of the 3Ts, tracing, testing and treating.

"The tracing teams are more experienced and more efficient; testing capabilities are no longer concentrated in Accra and Kumasi (second largest city), but spread more evenly across the country ... treating capacity has been considerably enhanced with isolation facilities better distributed across the nation,” he said.

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