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Two recovered COVID-19 patients have been discharged in Ghana, health officials have announced.
Dailymailgh.com also understands two others are awaiting laboratory results to inform health officials’ decision on discharge.
The two discharged patients, according to the Ghana Health Service, are those who fall under the Routine Surveillance.
As of March 30, 2020, Ghana’s COVID-19 case count stands at 152 with five deaths. The GHS said all the five had “underlying chronic medical conditions prior to COVID-19 infection.”
“As of 30th March 2020, at 08:30 hrs, no new cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the last update at 11:00hrs on 29th March 2020.
“The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research tested 17 samples from the Upper East (3), North East (3) and Ashanti (11) regions all of which were Negative. No new test results have been received from Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research since the last update,” the GHS said in its update.
LOCKDOWN
An order for everyone to stay at home for a two-week period until 12 April, apart from essential workers, is in effect across parts of Ghana.
The significantly stronger measures to boost the fight against Covid-19 came into effect at about 1am on Monday, March 30, as announced by the country’s leader, Nana Akufo-Addo.
The 14-day restriction on movements in parts of the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions, will include people only being allowed to leave home for essential work, to buy food or for certain vital reasons such as attending medical appointment.
The lockdown affects areas where significant numbers of virus infections have been recorded.
President Akufo-Addo in a televised address to the nation explained that the strategy is to enable contact tracing of persons who have come into contact with persons who have tested positive for the deadly virus.
Source: Daily Mail GH
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