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"99.95 or 97 percent of the active cases in the country are either asymptomatic or mild," this is according to Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye.

Ghana's case count

Ghana's COVID-19 case count has increased from 8,070 to 8,297 after 227 new cases were added.

Per an update by the Ghana Health Service on Tuesday afternoon the number of recoveries is now 2,986.

The Deputy Minister speaking on 'The Platform' programme on Peace FM, Monday said majority of the infected persons recover quickly because they are asymptomatic.

According to him, only 2 percent of cases globally are moderate to severe; and that of Ghana "is about 0.5; 5 out of a thousand".

Recovery

Dr Okoe Boye also indicated that "per records in Ghana, over 99.9 percent of patients recover from coronavirus with a mortality rate of 0.4 and further urged Ghanaians to "keep to the protocol because nobody knows who will be part of the 0.4 percent".