The Upper East Region has recorded four new cases of the novel coronavirus as of April 16, adding up to eight cases in the region, the region’s health directorate reports.
“Of the four cases, three are contacts of the first confirmed case and for the first time, one of the cases was detected through routine surveillance in the Bawku Municipality.”
“Unfortunately, the case in Bawku passed on before the laboratory results were received from KCCR. However, being a suspected case at the time, burial was appropriately supervised,” a statement from the Upper East Region Health Directorate said in a statement.
The statement also said the directorate “has initiated steps to communicate the results to affected persons and to immediately identify all contacts of the for new cases for immediate quarantine.”
Ghana has so far recorded 641 cases.
The Greater Accra Region has the most number of cases with 514 followed by the Ashanti Region has 53 and Eastern Region with 41.
