Bolgatanga, April 17, GNA – The Upper East Regional Director of Ghana Health Service, Dr Winfred Ofosu, says the Region has recorded the first death and four additional confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total confirmed cases to eight.
It would be recalled that a 33-year old pregnant woman was the first reported case of COVID-19 in the Region, which subsequently increased to four after laboratory investigations of her contacts tested positive.
Dr Ofosu, who made the announcement in a press release he signed on the updates of COVID-19 in the Region, said his outfit received laboratory results of four cases in the early hours of Thursday.
“Three are contacts of the first confirmed case and for the first time, one of the cases was detected through routine surveillance in the Bawku Municipality,” he said.
The Director said the detected case in the Bawku Municipality passed on before the laboratory results were received from the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR).
He said the burial was appropriately supervised prior to the release of the results, adding that: “We have initiated steps to communicate the results to affected persons and to immediately identify all contacts of the four new cases for immediate quarantine.”
Dr Ofosu commended the public for their cooperation in the fight against the virus and urged residents in the Region to remain calm as the authorities worked to bring the situation under control.
GNA