COVID-19: Ghana heads for 5th wave amidst fast spreading infections, choked hospitals
There has been a significant surge in Covid-19 cases in Ghana this month, putting the country on the path to its fifth wave since the outbreak in March 2020.
In March 2022, President Akufo-Addo lifted most of the Covid-19 restrictions.
The Executive Instrument was revoked, allowing all land and sea borders to be re-opened.
The wearing of facemasks, a major intervention in curtailing the spread of Sars-Cov-2 (the virus which causes Covid-19), was also relaxed, making the wearing of face coverings no longer mandatory.
All in-person activities, including religious gatherings, conferences, workshops, and funerals, could now resume at full capacity, as long as the audience and participants are fully vaccinated, but hand washing and hand sanitizing points were still to be made available, President Akufo-Addo said in his 28th address to the nation on the pandemic.
At this time, cases were low around the country with a single case of Covid-19 reported on the 17th of April, an active case of just 26 and no hospitalisations at all.
Today, active cases have crossed the 1,000 infections mark with 120 persons contracting the disease in one day, data from the Ghana Health Service shows.
There’s still no Covid-19 related death this year. But the hospitals are getting filled up.
For most of March and April 2022, severe and critical cases were zero, while symptomatic cases were completely down.
But the latest report shows as many as 13 persons are with severe COVID, whilst one more person is in critical condition.
Meanwhile, Government is also nowhere near its target of vaccinating 23 million Ghanaians.
Source: Ghana News
