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Ghana’s COVID-19 cases hit 6,269, recoveries now 1,898

Ghana has confirmed 173 new COVID-19 cases.

The current case count now stands at 6,269, according to the Ghana Health Service’s latest update on the country’s COVID-19 situation.

The update also indicated 125 more recoveries, raising the number of recoveries to 1,898.

The Ghana Health Service disclosed this in its latest update on Wednesday night [May 20, 2020] The Greater Accra Region is still leading the chart with 4,582 cases, followed by the Ashanti and Central Regions with 921 and 285 cases respectively.

In a related development, the latest figures released by the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed that more women have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the Ashanti Region than men.

This is a departure from the national trend where more men have tested positive for the disease than women in Ghana. Out of the total 886 cases recorded in the region as of Wednesday, May 20, 462 of them representing 52 per cent were women whilst the remaining 423, representing 48 per cent were men, reports Graphic Online’s Ashanti Regional reporter, Kwadwo Baffoe Donkor.

A week ago in the Ashanti Region, the figures showed that more men had tested positive than women, but that position has changed in the last one week.

The majority of the reported cases are from Obuasi where more women have tested positive than men. Out of the total number of infected people in the Ashanti Region, 30 of them have been identified as health workers, who according to the authorities, are doing well and responding to treatment.

According to the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate, the index case that spread the virus within Obuasi was someone who was operating close to a market and had contact with more women than men.

This, according to the experts, accounted for the higher number of women contracting the virus than men.

At a press briefing Wednesday, (May 20, 2020), the Ashanti Regional Health Director, Dr Emmanuel Tenkorang said as of Wednesday, May 20, 2020, a total of 886 cases had been recorded in the region with the Obuasi Municipality and Obuasi East District recording 381 and 206 cases respectively.

The Obuasi area alone has a total of 587.

Source:Fiilafmonline/CitiNews/GRAPHIC 

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