Ghana’s coronavirus cases rise to 52
Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu has said the number of coronavirus cases in Ghana has risen from 27 to 52.
He made this disclosure at a presser in Accra, Tuesday.
“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.
“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,” the minister said.
Out of the 52 confirmed cases, two persons have died.
On March 18, 2020, information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah announced
that health experts had told government officials that the next two
weeks will be critical in Ghana’s fight against the deadly coronavirus
pandemic.
Speaking to journalists, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah said” the health experts
tell us that the next two weeks are going to be critical in determining
whether or not we are going to get significant community spread. They
tell us that the general theory pandemic management is that often it is
likely the numbers go up a bit before it curves or the situation gets
better.
“Therefore, they are bracing for the possibility of some limited
recordings of more cases in the medium term but they continue to assure
us that the systems they are putting together and continue to ramp-up
are such that we will be able to contain it and hold this virus in
check.”
Oppong Nkrumah affirmed the government’s commitment in ensuring the
safety of every citizen by ensuring that all the measures put in place
to stop the spread of the virus are adhered to.