Six more persons have tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID 19) in the Central Region as at Tuesday, April 21, the Regional Directorate of Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed.
This brings to eight, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region, which had only one confirmed case and another from Accra being managed in a facility in the region, before the new cases this week.
Dr. Kwabena Sarpong, Deputy Regional Director in charge of Public Health who disclosed this said the patients were contacts of confirmed cases.
He said five of the patients who are not showing any signs and symptoms were being managed in their respective homes with the others receiving treatment at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) and were in stable condition.
According to Dr Sarpong, a total of 107 new suspected cases were recorded as at Sunday, April 19, bringing the cumulative suspected cases from routine enhanced surveillance and returnees to 561 and their specimen had been taken to Nugochi for testing.
He said 238 of the specimen had come out negative with 318 samples pending, while 240 persons had completed their 14-day quarantine period.
Dr Sarpong said an additional 178 contacts were being traced making it a total of seven hundred and eighty-three (783) individuals being traced for specimen collection through enhanced surveillance with the support of security agencies.
He added that one hundred and forty-eight (148) returnees were under mandatory quarantine for 14 days in a safe and secured location.
Source: GNA
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@ Smith, be smart. The six new confirmed cases in Central Region are from the contacts of a confirmed case already reported in the region. Their samples were taken for testing long before the restrictions on Accra and Kumasi were lifted. We were waiting for this results and thank God only six who are positive. It's like you have not been following stories but you want your voice to be heard.
Listing to what the Medicalofficer is saying ,You don't read well before you comment. They are people already samples are on testing read the information well.Before you start insulting the president Cape coast is not part of the lockdown area so why are you insulting the president. Is your father who is stuopit
8 in central region. Nana addo so stoupid. Now that there is free movement people who have the disease but were not traced will be moving from Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa to other regions and be spreading this disease. Innocent persons who have never traveled even outside villages are going to be infected with this virus because of ***barred word*** decisions that our leaders take. This sickness is such that one can have it without symptoms for days, so by the time it is detected the person might have spread it, that was why the lockdown should have been in place in Accra and Kumasi in particular. As we speak many are traveling and if God doesn't help us in the coming weeks you might hear good news.