Ghana has recorded fifty-four (54) COVID -19 related and the ratio of deaths to positive cases stands at 0.4%, compared to the global average of 5.5%, and the African average of 2.6%.
In hospitals and isolation centers, Ghana currently has thirteen (13) persons severely ill, six (6) persons critically ill, with three (3) persons on ventilators.
The total number of confirmed cases As at midnight of 13th June, the total number of positives, cumulatively, stands at eleven thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four (11,964), out of the two hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-one (254,331), tests conducted.
Also, a total of four thousand, two hundred and fifty-eight (4,258) patients who have fully recovered, have been discharged, and are now free of the virus.
The total number of people with the virus, which is active cases from total tests, is seven thousand, six hundred and fifty-two (7,652).
The total number of tests that have been conducted in Ghana, with a population of thirty-one million, two hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-one (254,331), is one of the highest on the African continent.
Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo is grateful to God for these cases.
The in his 11th COVID-19 address said “Mercifully for us, by the grace of God, the number of COVID-19 related deaths, sad though each death is, continues to remain very low, one of the lowest in Africa and the world.”
“The number of severe and critically ill also continues to below. I am relating all these figures not to engender any false, feel-good factor, but as statements of fact, that must provide the context for us, when we examine our figures. If indeed, we are to be guided by the data, then we must look at the data in all its ramifications, not just one particular aspect of them. That is the proper way to do justice to the data.
I am, thus, in no way suggesting that we should let our guard down, and throw out of the window the efforts we have made in bringing us this far, where we have become a reference point for many in the handling of this pandemic.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
