Information reaching Awake News has indicated that the Eastern Regional Directorate of Ghana Health Service has confirmed fifteen (15) new cases of the deadly novel corona virus.
What is however not yet clear is whether the 15 new cases are part of the 378 official figures stated by President Akufo-Addo during his national address yesterday.
The 15 new cases are among the 244 persons who were quarantined at the Afcon Construction Company in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality where an Indian expatriate working on the Akosombo to Tema railway project tested positive for the virus in March.
Out of this, 19 had contact with the Indian expatriate. One is yet to be ascertained.
The Eastern Regional Health Directorate on April 9, 2020, announced that it had submitted a total of 373 samples of suspected coronavirus cases in the region to Noguchi, awaiting results.
Out of the number, 244 samples were taken from contacts connected to the Indian expatriate.
Results from the research facility indicated that out of the 244 samples, 20 were positive.
The new confirmed cases could be among the 65 new cases announced by the government sending the national tally to 378.
Ghana Health Service website updates:
The last time the GHS undated its website (https://ghanahealthservice.org/covid19/) dedicated to the publishing COVID-19 figures was April 7, 2020.
SITUATION UPDATE, CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES IN GHANA AS AT 07 APRIL 2020, 14:40 HRS
As at 7th April 2020, 23:30 hr, a total of 313 cases of COVID-19 with six (6) deaths have been recorded. The regional distribution of the cases are as follows: Greater Accra Region has most cases (274) followed by the Ashanti Region (25), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1), Upper East Region (1) and Central Region (1).
A total of 161 cases were reported from the routine surveillance, 37 from enhanced surveillance activities and those from travellers under mandatory quarantine in both Accra and Tamale are 115.
The period for mandatory quarantine for travellers who arrived 21-22 March 2020 has ended. In all, a total 1,030 travellers were quarantined during the period. Out of these, 79 (7.7%) were positive during the initial testing whilst 951 were negative. Twenty-six (26) among those that were initially negative were found to have converted to be positive at the exit screening, bringing to a total of 105 which constitutes 10.2% among the travellers that were quarantined.
With regards to enhanced contact tracing and testing, as at 7th April 2020, a total of 11,016 samples from contacts have been processed and 37 (0.34%) have been confirmed positive for COVID-19.