The Volta Region Friday recorded its first COVID-19 death at the local Treatment Centre in Ho.The deceased, a 60-year-old woman who returned from Accra two weeks ago, visited the Ho Teaching Hospital with difficulty in breathing, fever for three days and reduced level of consciousness.

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She was noticed to have been progressively getting weak prior to her presentation at the Teaching Hospital and passed on after five days on admission at the Regional COVID -19 Centre on May 14, 2020 at 1815 hours.Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister, in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the deceased was a known diabetic who had suffered a Cerebro-Vascular Accident (CVA) a few years ago.

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The sexagenarian, the statement said, also had a pacemaker in situ for an unspecified cardiac condition.It said she had been previously reviewed at the National Cardio-Thoracic Centre where she was told the pacemaker was no longer effective.“On examination, she was febrile (40.0 °C), not pale and anicteric with a Glasgow Coma Score of 11/15.

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She had a respiratory rate of 28cpm with Bronchial Breath Sounds and coarse crepitations bilaterally.Source: GNA

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