Ghana has recorded 694 new COVID-19 cases pushing case count to 30, 366.
Per the latest update on Friday, July 24, 2020, 26,687 persons have been discharged/recovered.
This leaves the country’s active cases at 3,526 while the deaths remain at 153.
The 694 new cases were reported from the lab on July 20, 2020, after the samples that were taken from the period 11 June to 19 July 2020.
Ghana Health Service in the latest update on the COVID-19 situation in Ghana notes that 26 persons are in severe conditions while six others are in critical condition.
It further notes that four persons who have tested positive for the virus are on ventilators.
The total number of tests conducted so far is 361,542 comprising 132, 552 and 228,990 tests conducted through routine surveillance and contact tracing respectively.
Total test positivity rate is 8.40.
