The number of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 12, 929 after fresh recorded of 339, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said.
The new cases were reported from 36 districts and eight regions, with Greater Accra taking the lion’s share of 154 cases in 17 districts.
These were detected after 261, 319 tests representing a test positivity rate of 4.95, with total deaths of 66.
The number of active cases has also increased from 8, 395.
A total of 14 cases are classified as severe but not on ventilators. However, four are critical, and the patients are surviving on ventilators.
The Director of Public Health at the GHS, Dr Badu Sarkodie, said the figures were records as at June 16 during Thursday’s Weekly Press Briefing.
As at June 15, the country had recorded 12, 590 cases with 397 news cases and active infections of 8,114.
This implies an upsurge of about 3.5% and a total of 736 within a period of 24 hours from June 15 to June 16.
Meanwhile, it has discovered, with evidence, that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is under-reporting the number of deaths recorded.
But health officials have discounted those claims with suggestions that several processes are undertaken to audit the figures before releasing to the public, hence the disparities.
