The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says some seventeen (17) persons have fully ‘clinically’ recovered from the COVID-19 virus in the country, according to a briefing by its Director-General, early Tuesday morning.
Dr. Patrick Aboagye, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service said at the media briefing that “We have 17 persons who have recorded negatives and are obviously clinically cured,”
The Minister for information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who delivered an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country said a person has to test negative twice in order to be declared as fully recovered.
He averred that some Sixty Six (66) persons are yet to be included in the list of ‘fully recovered’ patients because they have undergone the second test which will also prove negative, after the first.
BestNewsGH.com can report that if the second test on the 66 patients come out negative, the total number of fully recovered patients in the country will hit eighty three (83).
He also disclosed that there are another sixty-six (66) people have also tested negative but are not included in the full recovery cases because they are yet to conduct a second test on them.
Out of 566 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, 292 reportedly is as a result of routine surveillance, 159 from enhanced surveillance activities and 115 from travellers under mandatory quarantine in Accra and Tamale respectively.
the Ghana Health Service explained further that “As of 11th April 2020, 23:00 Hrs, a total of 37,954 persons have been tested with 566 being positive for COVID-19. The breakdown of the 566 positive cases are as follows: four (4) have been treated, discharged and tested negative, 552 cases have been categorized as mild disease on treatment, two (2) moderate to severe cases, none currently on ventilators and eight (8) have died.’’
Source: BestNewsGH.com
