COVID-19: Cases In Ghana Increase To 161 With 31 Discharged Home, 5 Deaths & 3 Fully Recovered

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After receiving good news about 31 patients have recovered from the virus, confirmed cases in Ghana has increased from 152 to 161 as of today 31st March.

According to the Ghana Health Service, nine new cases of COVID-19 have been reported from NMIMR since the last update on 30th March 2020.

They indicated that the nine cases were reported from Accra, three of them traveled 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 Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) 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.

This brings up to a total of 161 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ghana, including five (5) deaths as of 31 st March 2020 at 15:00Hr.

The three of the confirmed cases have fully recovered and reverted to negative status for COVID-19 after repeat test following recovery from symptoms.

As of 31st March 2020, an additional thirty-one (31) confirmed cases have significantly improved with no symptoms and have been discharged from admission for home care pending repetition of laboratory tests.

This adds to the 18 that were earlier being managed from home and bring the number of cases on home care to forty-nine (49).

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.