As at today, Sunday, 10th May, 160,501 tests have been conducted since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Ghana.
This was made known by President Akufo-Addo when he addressed the nation on Sunday.
According to the president as Sunday 10th May, 4,700 confirmed cases have been recorded from the over 160,500 samples taken with, 494 recoveries, five persons being critically ill, and 4,179 persons responding to treatment.
He explained that there is no turning back in the aggressive testing the country has embarked on.
“As at Wednesday, 6th May, a total of one hundred and thirty five thousand, nine hundred and two (135,902) tests had been conducted, with our country’s total number of confirmed cases standing, at the time, at three thousand, and ninety-one (3,091), with three hundred and three (303) recoveries, and, sadly, eighteen (18) deaths.
“On Thursday, 7 th May, fourteen thousand and forty-six (14,046) more tests were conducted, and this included the clearing of the last set of backlogs. Our total confirmed cases, then, rose to four thousand and twelve (4,012) positives, i.e., nine hundred and twenty-one (921) new cases.
“Our recoveries stood at three hundred and twenty-three (323), eight (8) persons were critically ill, and deaths still at eighteen (18).
“It is important to stress that five hundred and thirty-three (533) out of the nine hundred and twenty-one (921) new cases recorded between last Wednesday and Thursday are factory workers from a fish processing factory 2 located in Tema.
“All five hundred and thirty-three (533) persons were infected by one person. Again, let me reiterate that these new nine hundred and twenty-one (921) cases were from backlogs dating as far back as 26th April, and not necessarily over a twenty-four (24) hour window”, he indicated.
The President stated that the coming on stream of seven more testing facilities across the country, to complement the efforts of the Noguchi Research Institute, the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, and the National Public Health Reference Laboratory at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, have meant that “we have been able to clear all the backlog of tests, and the reporting on the cases of infections since Friday, 8th May, is now current”.
“On Friday, a total of five thousand, two hundred and fifty-three (5,253) tests were conducted, with two hundred and fifty-one (251) positives.
“On Saturday, two thousand, two hundred and fifty-five (2,255) tests were conducted, with two hundred and sixty-six (266) found to be positive. For today, Sunday, a total of three thousand and forty-five (3,045) tests have been done, with one hundred and sixty (160) testing positive”, he said.