Five more die from COVID-19; death toll now 261
The Ghana Health Service reported that eight more persons have succumbed to the deadly COVID-19 in Ghana, five more people have been reported dead from the virus, taking the country’s death toll to 261.
The total case count of the highly infectious disease now stands at 43,260 with a total of 41,276 people either recovered or discharged.
The current active cases has dropped slightly from 1,875 to 1,723 with 166 new cases recorded.
Of the active cases, 16 and six persons are in severe and critical conditions respectively.
Three others are on ventilators.
On tests conducted, 429,773 have been done so far at a positivity rate of 10.0.
156,645 of the tests are samples from routine surveillance out of which 16, 792 have tested positive with a positive rate of 10.7.
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