Ghana has confirmed 25 new cases of Coronavirus, totaling 52 cases as of March 24.
Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Ghanaian health minister, announced that 25 new cases were confirmed among 185 travelers quarantined.
The country’s health ministry had announced on March 23 that a second patient had also died of the disease.
Ghana recorded its first death, a 61-year-old Lebanese male trader who was a resident of Kumasi, on March 22.
Manu said;
Out of the 185 test results received, we have 25 of those quarantined tested positive. If you add on to the earlier number of 27, it means we have 52 tested positive in our country at the moment.
He added that;
Those in quarantine, we have actually deployed psychologists to have chats with them. We are also in the process of handing them over to our case management teams we have set up. We have started taking them to isolated centres for case management.”
Ghana now has 52 confirmed cases of the virus.
According to Worldometer, over 390,000 cases have been recorded worldwide with 17,000 deaths while 103,000 patients have recovered from the virus.
