Eastern region has recorded ten (10) new confirmed cases of coronavirus increasing the regional Count from 41 to 51 as of April 18, 2020.
The region is just 8 cases low behind Ashanti Region which has recorded 59 cases with Greater Accra Region unenviably dominating with 685 confirmed cases.
The current national tally is now 834.
The increase in several cases is a result of the fact that Ghana Health Service is supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples that have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise. This is after some 57,000 samples have already been successfully tested as of April 15, 2020. In the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 be positive. This will bring Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment. The general public is however advised that this does not represent new infections that are occurring. It represents results from tests of a backlog of samples.
The laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days, all the testing would be completed.
Total samples tested so far now stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % testing positive. The results of this backlog of samples when released do not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report. Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
