WR: COVID-19 CASES INCREASE FROM 38 TO 52
The case count for the Western region has increase from 38 to 52 as of Sunday as a result of 14 new cases which have been recorded
The regional tally stood at 38 as of the last update on Saturday evening.
The Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis leads with 16 positive cases while Tarkwa comes second with 15 confirmed cases.
The update has impacted on the the national figure which is currently at 4700 as was pronounced by the president during his latest televised update of COVID-19 on Sunday night
According
to him, this number comes from a total of 160,501 tests conducted nationwide so
far.
“With our
total number of infections standing at 4,700 with 494 recoveries, 5 persons
being critically ill and 4,179 responding to treatment, 22 persons virtually
with underlying conditions have unhappily died,” he said.
President
Akufo-Addo attributed the rise in cases to the accelerated testing, isolation
and treatment undertaken by government since the introduction of measures to
combat the spread of the virus.
