As of today, 18th April 2020, confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ghana has increased to 834 with 99 recoveries and 9 deaths.
According to the Ghana Health Service, the increase in numbers is not as a result of new infections but a backlog of laboratory samples which have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise.
They added that this is after some 57,000 samples have already been successfully tested as at April 15th 2020. In the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive.
The laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days, all the testing would be completed.
Total samples tested so far now stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % testing positive. The results of these backlog of samples when released does not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report.
Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East.