Ghana shoots to sub-Saharan Africa’s third most impacted
The new case count means that Ghana is sub-Saharan Africa’s third most impacted nation behind South Africa with over 2,700 cases and Cameroon with 1,017 confirmed cases.
Ghana was at high risk of debt distress, the IMF said in a statement.
Recoveries recover by 66
Ghana’s COVID-19 statistics as of April 16 stood at 641, with five new cases recorded, 83 recoveries and eight deaths, the information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah told a press briefing in the capital Accra.
Three day boom – 408 to 636
Ghana as of April 11, 2020 had tested over 37,000 people and at the time had 408 cases. Ghana was sandwiched between South Africa and Egypt in first and third spots with 73,000+ tests and 25,000 tests cases respectively. Three days later, Ghana’s tally had increased to 636, the second highest in the sub-region only behind neighbouring Ivory Coast which had recorded only two cases more with 638 cases. Ghana’s biggest jump over the three-day period being 158 cases from 408 to 566 .
By April 14, another 70 cases have been recorded bringing the tally to 636.
Recoveries in need of recovery
With 636 cases, Ghana’s 17 recoveries is dwarfed by neighbours whose recoveries are in the hundreds. Nigeria with 373 cases has recorded 99 recoveries and 11 deaths, Niger with 570 cases had also recorded 90 recoveries. One thing is clear, and that is, in the absence of a boom in recoveries, Ghana’s recoveries need recovery. Worryingly yet, according to the Ghana Health Service website, only two out of the total number of active cases are in critical condition.
SOURCE: africanews.com
