Coronavirus Updates in Ghana

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Ghana has recorded two confirmed cases of the fast spreading deadly coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Thursday.

Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu disclosed the news at a late night press conference in the capital, Accra.

This comes a day after President Akufo-Addo announced the release of $100 million to combat the potential arrival of the scourge which has so far affected over 110,000 people with 3,400 deaths worldwide.

The two cases, Agyeman-Manu said tested positive after laboratory tests from the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research on Thursday, March 12, 2020.

The cases are ‘imported cases’ by returnees from Norway and Turkey, he stated.

“Both individuals returned to Ghana from Norway and Turkey. So these are imported cases of COVID-19.

• On 19 March 2020, KCCR confirmed two new cases in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 11.^[14] Passport services were also suspended by this date.^[15]
• On 20 March 2020, five new cases were confirmed in the Greater Accra Region, raising total confirmed cases to sixteen.
• On 21 March, three new cases confirmed on late on 20 March were communicated raising total confirmed cases to nineteen. At 9pm, Nana Akuffo Addo addressed the nation with Ghana’s first death case from Kumasi^[16]. Two new cases were later confirmed making total of twenty-one confirmed in Ghana.^[1]
• On 23 March 2020, the markets in the Greater Accra Region were disinfected through a spraying exercise.^[17] On that same day, all beaches were closed to help contain the spread of the pandemic.^[18] All of the county’s borders were closed for a fortnight from midnight of Sunday the 22nd of March 2020.^[19]
• On the 24 March 2020 the Minister of Health announced twenty-five new confirmed cases and one new death case, making a total of fifty-two confirmed cases and two deaths.