As of Saturday 18 April 2020, the total samples tested in Ghana so far were 60, 916 with 1.37% testing positive.
Ghana has released updates on the sample of cases of coronavirus tests carried out in the country.
This was disclosed on Saturday April 18, 2020 in a statement released by the country’s health services supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples which have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise.
The updates follow the 57,000 samples that had already been successfully tested as of April 15th 2020.
“In the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive. This will bring Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment,” the statement reads.
“The general public is however advised that this does not represent new infections that are occurring. It represents results from tests of a backlog of samples.
“The laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days all the testing would be completed,” it adds.
Total samples tested so far now stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % testing positive.
The results of these backlog of samples when released does not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report.
Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East.
