Ghana recorded 271 new cases of COVID-19 within 24 hours, a
week after lifting the lockdown in Accra, the country’s capital city, and
Kumasi.
This is the highest single day toll the country has recorded
in the coronavirus outbreak.
The cases which were confirmed on Sunday brings the total
number of infections in the country to 1,550.
In total, Ghana recorded 508 additonal cases in the week the
lockdown was lifted.
GhanaWeb quotes the Ghana Health Service (GHS) as saying
that while a total number of 11 people have died from the disease, 155 have
recovered.
The service said 62 percent of infected persons are male
while 38 percent are female. It said 84 percent of the cases have no travel
history.
Last week, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted a
three-week lockdown on the basis of “improved coronavirus testing.”
The Ghanaian president had said nonessential businesses in
Accra and Kumasi could reopen but under guidelines of social distancing.
He said Ghanaians should make use of face masks in public
places.
“In view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact of
infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the expansion in the
numbers of our treatment and isolation centres, our better understanding of the
dynamism of the virus, the ramping up our domestic capacity to produce our own
personal protective equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes
chalked at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the
severe impact of the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision to life the
three-week-old restriction on movements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and the contiguous
districts, with effect from 1am on Monday, 20th April,” he had said.
At the time the president lifted the lockdown, Ghana had
1,042 cases of the disease.
The country is the first to lift the restriction on movement
in the West African region.
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