Ghana has recorded 121 new cases of the COVID-19, the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has said.
The country’s active cases are now 396, this, according to the Service has brought the country’s total confirmed COVID-19 cases to 158,159 as of last week Tuesday.
The Service also indicated that there were three people in critical condition while five were in severe conditions.
According to GHS website monitored by the Ghanaian Times, 156,332people have recovered from the virus, but unfortunately1,431 people have died as a result of the infection.
The service said, it has so far conducted 2,281,479tests since the outbreak of the disease in March,2020, with a positivity rate of6.9.
On the regional case count, Greater Accra leads with active cases of 205after recording 88,387 cases out of which87,865 have recovered and have been discharged, followed by Ashanti with 22,286 cases and 21,896recoveries and discharges.
Western region has 8,196 recoveries out of 8,288 cases while Central region has 5,402 cases with 5,351recoveries and discharges.
The Service said that the Eastern region has confirmed cases of 6,998with 6,845 recoveries and discharges while Oti has 929recoveries with 920cases.
It also stated that, the Bono East region have recorded 2,966cases out of which 2,890 people have recovered and have been discharged.
The Volta Region, the GHS said has a total of5,942 cases out which 5,845were recoveries and discharges thereby leaving the region with 10active cases.
The Bono Region has a total 2,223 recoveries and discharges out of 2,325 cases leaving it with 6active cases.
The Ahafo region has 1,134 cases with 1,100 recoveries while Savannah Region has 291 cases with 287 recoveries.
North East has 372 cases with 361 recoveries, Northern has 1,863 cases with 1,831 recoveries while Western North has 1,109 cases with 1,095 recoveries.
The Service said the Upper East Region has 1,733 cases with 1,669 recoveries, the Upper West has 895 cases with 845 recoveries while the International travellers (KIA) has 7,239 cases with 7,113 recoveries.
The GHS has, therefore, called for the stricter enforcement of the COVID-19 safety protocols to help combat the pandemic.
The Service has also appealed to unvaccinated members of the public to go in for the COVID-19 jab to ensure that the country’s target for herd immunity was achieved, while preventing the vaccines from going bad.
BY ABIGAIL ARTHUR
