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President Nana Akufo-Addo in his 15th address of the nation on Covid-19 has indicated that only 44.3 percent of Ghanaians surveyed use the masks correctly out of the overall 82 percent of persons who possess the masks with the intention to use them.

According to the President, the survey was conducted by the Ghana Health Service at selected locations in Accra in the month of August to see the usage of the nose masks. He described the results of the results as encouraging.

“It revealed that the overall intention to use face masks at the sites surveyed was very high, with eighty-two percent (82%) of persons surveyed possessing a mask”.

“I believe we can do even more, and reach one hundred percent (100%). However, the same survey demonstrated that only forty-four-point three percent (44.3%) of those who have the mask use them correctly”, he hinted.

President Akufo-Addo however urged all and sundry to wear their masks, and do so correctly anytime they leave their homes; adding that “it is the new normal requirement of our daily existence until the virus disappears”.

He therefore mentioned that the phased approach towards returning lives to normal, through the strategic, controlled, progressive, and safe easing of restrictions, will, thus, continue.

Touching on regions with no record of Covid-19 cases, President Akufo-Addo said mentioned North East, Savannah, Upper West and Upper East regions respectively; charging their residents to do everything possible to maintain that situation.

“Currently, there are no recorded COVID-19 cases in the North East, Savannah, Upper East and Upper West Regions, and I charge their residents to do everything possible to maintain that situation”, he stated..

President Akufo-Addo revealed that total of 40,567 persons have recovered so far from the virus even though Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern, and Western continue to be the Regions with the highest number of active cases.

“This means our recovery rate has improved from eighty-nine-point five percent (89.5%) to ninety five point one percent (95.1%) in three weeks. Our death rate continues, mercifully, to be low at zero-point five percent (0.5%)”.

President Akufo-Addo who could his joy said that there are no backlogs of tests at any of our testing centres, making the situational reports on the Covid-19 up to date.

He again mentioned that tests results that used to take weeks are now available within forty-eight (48) hours.

“We have, so far, conducted four hundred and twenty-seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-one (427,121) tests”, he revealed.