
No fresh security service recruitment next year – Interior Minister
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17th August 2020 5:28:24 PM
1 min readBy: Chris Kodo
The latest update on Ghana's Coronavirus figures indicates that a 9-week-old child has succumbed to the disease.According to the Ghana Health Service, the baby's unfortunate demise occurred in the Central region. He is one of the 8 persons who are said to have been killed by the virus in the latest update.2 of the 7 adults also had no comorbidities while the remaining 5 had underlining health conditions such as retroviral infection with cerebral toxoplasmosis, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mellitus.The death toll now stands at 239.Meanwhile, 121 new cases have been confirmed, bringing the accumulated cases to 42,653.The country however continues to make a significant improvement in its fight as active cases have dropped again. The figure as announced on Friday, August 14 was 1906 but has now reduced to 1,847 despite the new cases that have been recorded.According to GHS, 6 are critical, 3 are on ventilator while 16 are severe cases.Below is the Cumulative Cases per RegionGreater Accra Region - 21,212Ashanti Region - 10,569Western Region - 2,899Eastern Region - 2,097Central Region - 1,801Bono East Region - 720Volta Region - 642Western North Region - 580Northern Region - 489Ahafo Region - 485Bono Region - 480Upper East Region - 282Oti Region - 229Upper West Region - 88Savannah Region - 62North East Region - 18
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
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