President Akufo-Addo has revealed that non-communicable diseases such as heart diseases, diabetes, and asthma, have proven to be the common risk factors for the eleven (11) deaths of Pandemic COVID -19.
He has therefore called on Ghanaians to pay increased attention to chronic, non-communicable diseases.
Delivering his eighth address on measures to control the Coronavirus in the country, Nana Akufo-Addo said the total number of confirmed infections have gone from one thousand and forty-two (1,042) to one thousand, five hundred and fifty (1,550).
According to him, recoveries are now one hundred and fifty-five (155), and deaths eleven (11). The two (2) new cases of deaths, like the other nine (9), are all of the persons with underlying health issues, what the doctors call comorbidity. The positivity rate, i.e. the rate of infection from those sampled, continues to remain constant at 1.5%. Six (6) persons are critically ill, and the remaining one thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight (1,378) have mild or no symptoms at all and are responding to treatment. Of the five hundred and eight (508) new confirmed cases, four hundred and sixty-five (465) are from the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, ten (10) from Kasoa in the Central Region, seven (7) from the Ashanti Region, six (6) in the Eastern Region, two (2) in the Northern Region, one (1) in Western North, and seventeen (17) from the Oti Region.
These seventeen (17) were the result of interceptions near Nkwanta by officers of the Immigration Service and other security personnel of two (2) cargo vehicles that had on 2 board a total of sixty-seven (67) passengers, who were illegally entering the Region from Accra during the period of the ‘lockdown’, and all of whom were tested, with seventeen (17) proving positive. We are still very much in unchartered territory, and, clearly, we still have some way to go towards ridding ourselves of the virus.
He said the total number of samples and tests is now one hundred thousand, six hundred and twenty-two (100,622).
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
