President Nana Akufo-Addo has said a survey conducted by the Ghana Health Service demonstrated that only forty-four-point three percent (44.3%) of those who have the mask use them correctly.
According to him, the survey revealed that the overall intention to use face masks at the sites surveyed was very high, with eighty-two percent (82%) of persons surveyed possessing a mask.
Delivering his 15th update on the Coronavirus situation in Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo said he was encouraged by the results of a recent survey conducted by the Ghana Health Service into the use of face masks at selected locations in Accra in August.
He said” I believe we can do even more, and reach one hundred percent (100%). I urge every one of us to wear our masks and do so correctly anytime we leave our homes. It is the new normal requirement of our daily existence until the virus disappears.”
Currently, there are no recorded COVID-19 cases in the North East, Savannah, Upper East, and Upper West Regions, and I charge their residents to do everything possible to maintain that situation. Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern, and Western continue to be the Regions with the highest number of active cases. Thus far, a total of forty thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven (40,567) persons have recovered from the virus. This means our recovery rate has improved from eighty-nine-point five percent (89.5%) to ninety-five point one percent (95.1%) in three weeks. Our death rate continues, mercifully, to be low at zero-point five percent (0.5%). Happily, there are no backlogs of tests at any of our testing centers, meaning that situational reports are up to date. Indeed, test results that used to take weeks are now available within forty-eight (48) hours. We have, so far, conducted four hundred and twenty-seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-one (427,121) tests.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
