A Virologist at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research has said a pre-screening exercise for a study has shown rising COVID-19 infection rates in one of two regions with high active cases.
Dr John Amoasi said the results from the pre-screening exercise in the Ashanti Region, which currently has the second-highest COVID-19 infections and active cases, hints at an overall national scenario. According to him, in one instance, half of all the persons screened for the study in the Ashanti Region had contracted the virus.
“We did a pre-screening just yesterday [June 22] and half of those we pre-screened were positive…this means we need to be really careful,” he warned in a Joy News report. Since March 2020, the Greater Accra Region and the Ashanti Region have topped the coronavirus infections leader-board as first and second respectively.
In the latest (June 19, 2021)coronavirus update by the Ghana Health Service, the Greater Accra Region tops the chart with 929 active cases, followed by Ashanti Region with 155 active cases.
Dr John Amaosi’s revelations suggest that average daily infections in the Greater Accra Region could mostly be going up too.