The Ghana Health Services (GHS) says it is supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples, which have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise.
According to the GHS, as at April 15, 2020, 57,000 samples had successfully been tested. A statement on its website said in the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive, bringing Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment.
However, it advises the general public that this does not represent new infections that are occurring, but represents results from tests of a backlog of samples.
It adds that, the laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days all the testing would be completed.
The Service further explained that, total samples tested so far stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % testing positive, adding that the results of these backlog of samples when released does not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report. Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East.
By Maxwell Ofori / www.thechronicle.com.gh
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