The number of confirmed deaths has increased, sadly, from three hundred and thirty-eight (338) persons to three hundred and fifty-two (352) as of 16 January 2021.
There is an upsurge in the number of active cases, from a little over nine hundred (900) to one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-four (1,924).
Ghana’s COVID-19 treatment centers have gone from having zero patients to now being full because of the upsurge in infections.
President Nana Akufo-Addo made this known in his Update No. 22 delivered on Sunday night, January 17, 2021.
Particularly worrying is the fact that the Ghana Health Service is recording, on average, two hundred (200) new cases of COVID infections daily.
The number of patients requiring hospitalization and intensive care is rising.
The number of severe cases, which stood at eighteen (18) a week ago, has increased sharply to one hundred and twenty (120). Two weeks ago, there was no critical case, we now have thirty-three (33) in our treatment facilities. Again, according to statistics from the Ghana Health Service, a considerable number of persons who are severely ill are, surprisingly, relatively youthful persons, with no previous underlying health conditions.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
