Ghana’s Covid-19 Recovery Case Rises To 17

Seventeen people who were treated for coronavirus (Covid-19) have recovered from the virus in Ghana. 

The patients tested negative for the virus for the second time after their treatment and have therefore been discharged from their various treatment centers.

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kumah Aboagye, made the announcement at a Covid-19 press briefing in Accra yesterday, Tuesday, April 14.

According to him, “we have a definition of recovered as those who are positive and have recorded consecutive negative [tests].”

He said 66 additional patients who were treated for Covid-19 have tested negative for the virus and are awaiting their second testing to finally confirm their status.

“Currently, we have 83 people in that category but we have about 17 who have recorded double negative and obviously clinically cured but we are going to monitor them.

“We have about 208 who are well, asymptomatic or in mild condition and being treated at home and isolation centres,” he added.

This will bring the total number of recoveries to 83 should the second test results prove negative for the virus. He further noted that 473 patients are being treated at home and in isolation centers and they are responding to treatment.

Ghana’s COVID-19 cases so far

Ghana has 566 cases of COVID-19 with eight deaths. So far ten out of 16 regions have recorded COVID-19 cases. with two persons still remained in critical condition at the hospital.