Four new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Upper East Region
Vincent Amenuveve
The Upper East Region has recorded four new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus(COVID-19) bringing the total number of confirmed cases to eight.
A statement signed by the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Winfred Ofosu said one of the cases which was detected through routine surveillance in the Bawku Municipality however passed on before the laboratory results were received from the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research.
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It further explained that “the burial of the deceased was appropriately supervised as it was a suspected case”.
According to the statement, the other three cases were contacts of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the region which was reported on April 3.
The statement added that, the laboratory feedback of the new cases was received on Thursday April 16, 2020.
