Ghana’s coronavirus case count has shoot up by a whopping 193 cases adding to 834 from the previous 641, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reports.
The government on Thursday revealed that it was expecting results from some 12,000 samples sent for testing.
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, in a tweet on Thursday evening, said the processing will be in addition to 51,000 samples already tested as at yesterday.
Contact tracing teams and lab technicians were tasked to trace some initial about 10,000 at-risk-persons but have already tested some 50,000.
The enhanced testing programme makes Ghana the second most aggressive country in testing for Covid-19 in Africa.
Experts say early testing is key in helping a country take control of the spread and contain in.
Four major cities of the country, Accra, Kumasi, Kasoa and Tema, are already on a three-week lockdown aimed at holding the spread of the deadly virus.
