Just one a lot more individual has died of Covid-19, the condition caused by the coronavirus.
That provides to 9, the number of individuals in the country who have succumbed to the viral infection as at Saturday, April 18.
Total recorded instances now stand at 834 with 99 recoveries.
According to the newest update by the Ghana Overall health Support, 10 out of the 16 areas have recorded optimistic situations of the virus.
Larger Accra has preserved its lead with 685 conditions, adopted by Ashanti and Eastern Locations which have recorded 59 and 51 situations respectively.
3 areas- Central, Western and North East- have the the very least documented conditions of 1 each individual.
Problem update
The Ghana Health Assistance is supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples which have been picked for testing as portion of the Covid-19 tests exercising.
This is soon after some 57,000 samples have already been correctly analyzed as at April 15, 2020. In the initially batch of this backlog, an extra 198 have been identified to be good.
This will convey Ghana’s total scenario depend to 834 at the moment. The basic public is, however, encouraged that this does not characterize new infections that are developing. It represents outcomes from tests of a backlog of samples.
The laboratories have been working day and night to exam this huge variety of samples. With any luck , in the future couple of times all the tests would be completed.
Overall samples tested so significantly now stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % tests favourable.
