The number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ghana has increased to 7.
A tweet by the Disease Surveillance Dept of the Ghana Health Service confirming the case said it was recorded at 3.00 pm in the Greater Accra region on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
A statement published on the Ghana Health Service website said the patient is a 35-year-old male Ghanaian citizen, who returned to Accra from France within the past 14 days.
Ghana announced its first two cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 12, 2020.
Ghana’s Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu said the two cases were confirmed Thursday, March 12, 2020.
The confirmed cases of the Coronavirus increased to a total of six on Saturday, March 14, 2020.
The Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Badu Sarkodie said the four new cases like the previous two announced last Thursday were imported into Ghana.
He said all the patients were in stable condition and did not show symptoms at arrival at the ports. Currently, there are no deaths and all the seven (7) confirmed COVID-19 cases are being managed in isolation and are in stable condition.
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