The West African country, Ghana has recorded over 262 new coronavirus cases in the last 24hours making the total positive cases jumping to 11,118.
This is coming in amid a sit-down strike by contact tracers in Ashanti region.
The Ghana Health Service announced 498 cases on Friday but barely 12 hours later, have the cases grown to 11,118 with 3,979 recoveries and 48 deaths.
Despite the increasing number of cases on daily basis with health facilities being overwhelmed, the Government has eased restrictions and urged schools to reopen.
Churches and mosques have also been told they could organise worship services with not more than 100 worshippers at a time but many have defied the directive, saying it could endanger lives of congregants.
In the midst of this increasing number, the Electoral Commission of Ghana is set to start mass registration exercise from June 30, 2020 which will request some little over 17million people going to cue to register.
The NIA is also preparing grounds to resume a mop up registration exercise across the country.
Personnel engaged to do contact tracing have refused to work in the Ashanti region over non-payment of their allowances. There is no reaction by state officials yet.
The Greater Accra region leads with the highest number of cases with 6,888 infections followed by the Ashanti region, which has recorded 1,989 cases.
Ghana’s COVID-19 regional breakdown
Greater Accra Region – 6,888
Ashanti Region – 1,989
Western Region – 909
Central Region – 584
Volta Region – 212
Eastern Region – 204
Upper East Region – 128
Western North Region – 79
Oti Region – 48
Northern Region – 37
Upper West Region – 22
Bono East Region – 13
North East Region – 2
Savannah Region – 1
Bono Region – 1
Ahafo Region – 1
