Coronavirus: Restrictions could be relaxed by May – Fmr Health Service D-G

Ghana can win the fight against the dreaded coronavirus spread by May 2020 if Ghanaians continue to adhere to the World Health Organisation directives on social distancing and hand washing, a former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service has said.

As the government intensifies contact tracing and enhanced testing, Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira, said the approach would tame the disease which has killed five people in Ghana and 74,000 others worldwide.

“We are on course, with the contact tracing we are ahead of the disease, so if the 73 is from the 15, 000 then I am sure we would get more. The lockdown is very important and if we continue with washing our hands …I am sure by the end of next month Ghanaians will see some relief unless people go out of the jurisdiction,” he said.

So far, a total of 287 cases of COVID-19 with five (5) deaths have been recorded. The regional distribution of the cases are as follows: Greater Accra Region has most cases (258) followed by the Ashanti Region (18), Northern Region (10), Upper West Region (1), Eastern Region (1) and Upper East Region (1).

Globally over 1.3 million people have been infected by the disease while close to 300, 000  recovered from the virus, which symptoms is like that of a flu.

The US leads the number of infections with over 350, 000 cases followed by Spain, Italy and Germany.