The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has noted that the country has recorded it first seven COVID-19 infection since the outbreak of the disease in the country in March 2020.
The country has so far recorded 160,870 cases with 1,445 death and some 88 people still hospitalized across the country.
The country as at Monday, March 22, 2022, had 159,339 people discharged.
According to data by the Ghana health Service as at March 20,2022, state that 4.87 million people have been vaccinated.
Background
In Ghana, the first official cases of COVID-19 were reported on 12 March 2020. The Health Minister announced the nation’s first two confirmed cases in Accra. The two cases were identified as people who had returned to the country from Norway and Turkey.
These imported cases initiated the first contact tracing process in Ghana, helping detect several dozens of cases in a short period of time.
Following the discovery that the pandemic had already started to spread in Ghana, the government instituted measures to stop local spread of the infection and any further import of the virus into the country.
Measures included shutting all land borders to the country together with the closure of the main international airport in Accra. Intermediary initiatives saw persons entering the country between the time of the announcement and the shutting of the borders being quarantined in 4- and 5-star hotels at the expense of the Ghanaian government.
