President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the Government has not lost the battle to defeat COVID-19 as a claim by some Ghanaians and politicians.
According to the president, current statistics undermine, as unfounded, the claim that Ghana has lost the battle to defeat COVID-19, adding, there can only be one simple reason for this baseless assertion, and that is political expediency.
Addressing the Nation on COVID -19 which is the 15th address, Nana Akufo-Addo called on Ghanaians not to begrudge those who make such statements, they need to make them continue to try to stay relevant.
He said” As on 24th July, the number of active cases, i.e. persons with the virus, stood at three thousand, three hundred and seven (3,307). As of Saturday, 15th August, three weeks later, the number of active cases stands at one thousand, eight hundred, and forty-seven (1,847). This is a clear indication that Government policies are working.”
“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. Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern, and Western continue to be the Regions with the highest number of active cases. Thus far, a total of forty thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven (40,567) persons have recovered from the virus. 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%). Happily, there are no backlogs of tests at any of our testing centers, meaning that situational reports are up to date. Indeed, test 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.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
