Ghana has recorded 33 more cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID -19), shooting up the country’s case count to 130,041as at October 23.
According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) website monitored by the Ghanaian Times yesterday, 127,050 people have recovered from the disease.
Five more people have died from the disease increasing the death toll to 1,174with 40 people in severe conditions and 13peoplein critical state.
The GHS has indicated on its website that the country currently has 1,817 active cases.
Routine surveillance conducted indicatedthat 49,312 people tested positive out of 443,448total number of tests conducted while 77,841 people tested positive through enhanced contact tracing out of 856,904 total tests done.
International travelers (KIA) tests showed that 2,888 people tested positive out of 557,611 tests conducted.
The service therefore said it had so far conducted 1,857,963 tests since the outbreak of the disease in March 2020 with a positivity rate of 7.0per cent.
On the regional case count, Greater Accra leads with 70,298confirmed cases, followed by Ashanti with 20,698 cases.
Western has 7,497 confirmed cases, while Eastern has 6,565 cases.
The Service also said that Central had 4,736 confirmed cases while Bono East had 2,552cases.
The Volta Region, the GHS said, had a total of 5,303 cases and the Western North has 1,006 cases.
The Bono Region has a total of 2,119 cases followed by the Northern region with 1,737cases.
Ahafo region has 1,058 cases, Upper East 1,454, Oti, 846, Upper West, 739cases, Savannah, 262 and the North East with 283 cases.
Meanwhile, the Service has warned of a possible fourth wave of COVID-19 if Ghanaians become complacent.
It has asked people who have not taken the vaccine to do so while continuing to adhere to the safety precautions as the Christmas and New Year festivities draw near.
Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director General, GHS, gave the warning at a media briefing in Accra last Friday on the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.
BY ABIGAIL ARTHUR
