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Coronavirus: Ghana’s Daily Infections Jump 700- President Reveals
President Akufo-Addo has revealed that, the average rates of infection in the country now stands at 700 as compared to 200 in two weeks ago.
He indicated that, as at Friday, 29th January, 64 more people have sadly died from the disease, bringing the fatalities to 416.
“Our hospitalisation rates are increasing, with the number of critically and severely ill persons now at one hundred and seventy-two (172). Our hospitals have become full, and we have had to reactivate our isolation centres.” He said when giving update number 23 on measures taken to control the spread of the pandemic which was monitored by wontumionline.com.
President Akufo-Addo stressed that, the total number of active cases has more than doubled from a little over 1,900 two weeks ago to 5,358 currently.
“When I delivered Update No. 22, thirteen (13) out of the sixteen (16) regions had recorded active cases; today, all sixteen (16) regions have active cases. Indeed, Greater Accra, Central, Western, Ashanti, Eastern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, and Northern Regions are the hardest hit, accounting for ninety-four percent (94%) of the total number of active cases.” He said