Ghana's COVID-19 active cases inching up again; death toll up

Currently, there are 1,589 active cases. Of that number, eight are critical and 24 severe.

The death toll has risen by two. It is now 779.

Since March 2020, a total of 92,562 people in Ghana have had the virus with 90,196 recovered. Forty-nine cases were recently confirmed.

Meanwhile, the GHS has also warned and advised Ghanaians traveling to COVID-19 hotspot countries to either cancel or postpone all non-essential travels.

“In view of the alarming rate of infections of COVID-19 in some parts of the world, especially in Asia and South America, the Ghana Health Service wishes to advise the general public to either cancel or postpone all non-essential travels to countries with exceedingly high COVID-19 infection rate,” a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration opined.

The Ministry further outlined some instructions for travellers arriving and leaving Ghana:

Only test results or certificates bearing trusted travel or biomass codes will be considered valid for travel out of Ghana
Sign up for accounts on (trustedtravel.panabios.org) with the same e-mail address and mobile numbers provided to laboratories during testing
All arriving passengers who test negative for COVID-19 at the airport are encouraged to self-isolate for ten (10) days
All passengers arriving from designated COVID-19 hot spots and testing negative at the airport may be subjected to a repeat test on the third day of arrival at their cost