271 fresh COVID-19 cases recorded in Ghana within a week after lifting lockdown

Ghana has recorded 271 new instances of COVID-19, seven days subsequent to lifting the lockdown in Accra, the nation's capital city, and Kumasi.

The cases which were affirmed on Sunday brings the absolute number of cases recorded in the nation to 1,550.
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GhanaWeb cites the Ghana Health Service (GHS) as saying that while an absolute number of 11 individuals have kicked the bucket from the illness, 155 have recuperated.

The administration said 62 percent of tainted people are male while 38 percent are female. It said 84 percent of the cases have no movement history.


A week ago, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted a three-week lockdown based on "improved coronavirus testing."

The Ghanaian president had said insignificant organizations in Accra and Kumasi could revive yet under rules of social removing.

He said Ghanaians should utilize face covers out in the open spots.


“In view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact of infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres, our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus, the ramping up our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes chalked at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the severe impact of the poor and vulnerable, I have taken the decision to life the three-week-old restriction on movements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and Kasoa, and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area and the contiguous districts, with effect from 1am on Monday, 20th April,” he had said.


At the time the president lifted the lockdown, Ghana had 1,042 instances of the illness.

The nation is the first to lift the limitation on development in the West African district.