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COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana | |
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Clockwise, from top: Empty streets in Accra following the lockdown, A shop in Accra facilitating social distancing protocols, COVID-19 PCR tests at NMIMR, Disinfection exercise at Achimota School - Administrative Block. | |
Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Ghana |
First outbreak | Wuhan/China |
Index case | Accra |
Arrival date | 12 March 2020 (11 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 84,349 (as of 27 February)[1] |
Active cases | 5,295 (as of 27 February)[1] |
Severe cases | 77 (as of 27 February)[1] |
Critical cases | 24 (as of 27 February)[1] |
Recovered | 78,443 (as of 27 February)[1] |
Deaths | 611 (as of 27 February)[1] |
Government website | |
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first two cases in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two infected people came to Ghana, one from Norway and the other from Turkey.[2]