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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Professor John Owusu Gyapong has indicated that the country’s current COVID-19 situation per data provided does not show that it has reached its peak yet.

According to the Professor of Epidemiology, he can predict that the country is likely record more cases of the new coronavirus depending on the available data at his disposal.

As Ghana continues to record more cases, there have been arguments that the country has hit its plateau; thus, as it stands now, the country has recorded 27,667 cases with 23,249 recoveries and 148 deaths.

But the Professor of Epidemiology shared a different view on Sunday on Beyond the Lockdown program on Joy FM, stressing that Ghana is more likely to see another surge in the current situation.

“The data that I have had the privilege of looking at; that is, data from the Volta and Oti regions, which I’ve  been following up on in a very  systematic way, I don’t think we have hit the plateau and we are now coming down yet,” he said.

He reiterated that it is unclear to him how the wave is going to go over the period of time even though from the data he seen some two spikes.

“We started testing at the end of April, and our numbers were pretty low; under 10 cases per day. And sometime, at the beginning of June the numbers started going up, then it came down again and then it started going up again,” he said.

He also indicated that the country must invest in research in order to adapt to the virus, as expects have advised that “we learn to live with the virus”.

 “There’s a kind of wave at least from this area which I believe is a reflection of what is going on in the country, if we had the opportunity to interrogate the data in the entire country, we may probably find something very similar there. But the truth of the matter is that we are still learning how the virus behaves,” he said.