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Ghana has recorded another two Coivd-19 deaths.
Details were not been given on the deaths by the Ghana Health Service in its update on the Service’s Covid-19 page.
In the update, the GHS said “as of 10 April 2020, a total of 27,346 persons have been tested with 408 being positive for COVID-19.
“The breakdown of the 408 positive cases are as follows: four have been treated, discharged and have tested negative, 394 cases have been categorised as mild disease on treatment, two moderate to severe cases, none currently on ventilators and eight have died.”
Of the 408 confirmed Covid-19 cases, the Service said, 205 were reported from the routine surveillance, 88 from enhanced surveillance activities and 115 from travellers under mandatory quarantine in both Accra and Tamale.
Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern, Northern, North East, Upper East and Upper West regions.
According to the GHS, measures introduced to control and prevent further spread of the disease have resulted in a sudden increase in case detection, with high number of cases being reported.
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