Nine new cases have been confirmed in Ghana taking the number of corona cases to 161.
All new cases were reported in Accra, according to the Ghana Health Service.
“Three of them travelled to Ghana within the past 14 days from Germany, France and Hungary respectively but for six of them, there is no history of travel outside,” the service indicated.
According to the latest update, the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research also reported on tests from 77 samples including samples from 41 asymptomatic contacts of a case from Tamale Teaching Hospital “and all are negative for COVID-19”.
Following these new cases, “processes for enhanced contact tracing and laboratory testing have been initiated”.
A total of 1,185 contacts have been identified and are being followed up on,” the service added.
Ghana has also recorded five deaths from the virus.
All five persons who died “had underlying chronic medical conditions prior to COVID-19 infection”.
Globally, 719,758 persons are known to have contracted the virus with 33,673 deaths.
