Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll now 256; 101 new cases recorded
Eight more COVID-19 patients have succumbed, bringing the total national death toll to 256, the Ghana Health Service has reported.
Some 101 new cases were also confirmed recently.
It brings the total national tally to 43,094.
Of that number, 40,963 have recovered and been discharged.
The active cases, thus, stand at 1,875 as of Wednesday, August 19, 2020.
Of that number, 16 and six persons are in severe and critical conditions, respectively.
Three others are on ventilators.
So far, 429,773 tests have been conducted with a positivity rate of 10.0.
Some 156,645 of the tests were done on samples from routine surveillance out of which 16, 792 tested positive with a positive rate of 10.7.
The remaining 273,128 were samples from enhanced contact-tracing with 26,302 testing COVID-19 positive at a rate of 9.6.
Regional breakdown
Greater Accra Region – 21,445
Ashanti Region – 10,668
Western Region – 2,924
Eastern Region – 2,109
Central Region – 1,836
Bono East Region – 730
Volta Region – 646
Western North Region – 598
Ahafo Region – 490
Northern Region – 489
Bono Region – 480
Upper East Region – 282
Oti Region – 229
Upper West Region – 88
Savannah Region – 62
North East Region – 18
