COVID-19: Ghana Records 271 Fresh Cases

One week after Ghana lifted its lockdown order, Accra, its capital city, and Kumasi had a combined total of 271 fresh coronavirus cases.

The cases were confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 1,550.

As quoted by Ghanaian news outlet GhanaWeb, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said that a total number of 11 fatalities have been recorded with 155 recoveries.

It also added that of its infected people, 62 per cent of that number are male while 38 per cent are female, while 84 per cent of them have no travel history.

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Ghana's President, Nana Akufo-Addo had lifted the three-week lockdown, citing “improved coronavirus testing,” stating that nonessential businesses could resume their business activities but observe the rule of social distancing.

He said, “In view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact of infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres, our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus, the ramping up our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes chalked at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the severe impact of the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision to life the three-week-old restriction on movements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and the contiguous districts, with effect from 1am on Monday, 20th April."