The Ghana Health Service says some 582 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded. This brings the country’s total tally to 32,437.
With the death toll still at 161, GHS says it has also recorded 28,927 clinical recoveries with active cases now at 3,349.
Out of this number, eight are in critical condition, five on ventilators and 23 others in severe conditions.
In its tweet, GHS also explained that the new numbers are from “samples taken from June 29 to July 22, 2020, but reported from the lab on July 23”. Total of 582 new cases were reported on July 23, 2020 pic.twitter.com/cV1hre8VC5 — Disease Surveillance Dept_GHS (@DSD_GHS) July 26, 2020 The Service further said Greater Accra remains the region with the most case count and active cases with 16,716, and 1,773 respectively.
While the Ashanti Region has a total of 7,866 cases, Western Region and Central Regions follow closely with 2,539 and 2,539 cases each.
Find the case count per region below:
Greater Accra Region – 16,716
Ashanti Region – 7,866
Western Region – 2,539
Central Region – 1,349
Eastern Region – 1,214Volta Region – 577Bono East Region – 434Bono Region – 426Northern Region – 302Western North Region – 298Upper East Region – 282Oti Region – 172Ahafo Region – 121Upper West Region – 75Savannah Region – 57North East Region – 9