As of Sunday, 10th May 2020, the country(Ghana) test for Pandemic COVID-19 was one hundred and sixty thousand, five hundred and one (160,501) tests, with a total number of infections standing at four thousand, seven hundred (4,700), President Akufo-Addo has announced.
He said Ghana as 10th May 2020 has four hundred and ninety-four (494) recoveries, five (5) persons being critically ill, and four thousand, one hundred and seventy-nine (4,179) persons responding to treatment.
President Akufo-Addo announced this in his 9th address on measures taken to combat the spread of the pandemic.
Given the breakdown of the test, he said “Twenty-two (22) persons, virtually all of them with underlying illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, and chronic liver disease, have unhappily died. We must understand that the more people we test for the virus, the more persons we will discover as positive, and, thus, have the opportunity to isolate and treat them. If you do not test people for the virus, you will not find the positive persons, let alone isolate them from the population and treat them, and prevent them from spreading the virus. Indeed, had we 3 not been proactive in undertaking enhanced contact tracing of infected persons, and had relied solely on testing persons who reported to a hospital, which is the practice followed by some other countries, i.e. routine testing, our total case count would have stood at one thousand, four hundred and thirteen (1,413).”
The president added, ” The other three thousand, two hundred and thirty-two (3,232), i.e. two-thirds (⅔) of the population of positives, would have been undetected, and still be within the population, unknowingly infecting others. I know some political actors will want you to believe that our current numbers represent a failure on the part of the Government. Do not begrudge them. They need to make such comments for their political survival. On the contrary, we must be emboldened in the knowledge that the four thousand, seven hundred (4,700) persons infected, so far, with the virus, have been identified, taken out of the population, isolated, and are being treated.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
