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This was quickly commercialized to fight against COVID-19. [76] Ghana became the first country to use drone aircraft in the fight against the pandemic through the transport of COVID-19 test samples. [77] [78] [79] From May 2020, Zipline in partnership with the Ministry of health, delivered 2,573 COVID-19 samples to the NMIMR and the KCCR. [80]
Model-based simulations for Ghana indicate that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t was stable below 1.0 in August. [1]On 1 August, face shields were reported to have gained acceptance as protection against COVID-19, rather than the use of face masks, as they were claimed to be more comfortable when worn for long hours.
On 20 April, the COVID-19 Health Recovery Levy was to take effect on 1 May 2021. [676] NCCE urged the public to adhere to the safety protocols. [677] On 21 April, GHS claimed the country would roll out a digital verification of COVID-19 tests. [678] Some health experts in Ghana urged the public to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. [679]
[citation needed] It was confirmed by the regional director of health services. Affected persons were frontline workers managing the disease in the region. [125] [126] 173 new cases were confirmed making Ghana's case move to 6,269 according to Ghana Health Service. 125 more recoveries were made, raising the number of recovered persons to 1,898.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana was a 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 .
In January 2021, the relative of a 62-year-old COVID-19 patient who died in Egypt's El Husseineya Central Hospital due to the shortage of oxygen posted a video of the hospital on Facebook. The video that showed the medical staff in distress, resuscitating a man with the help of a manual ventilator went viral on the Internet, inviting global ...
Use of COVAX vaccines in Ghana. According to the Ghana Health Service, the COVID-19 vaccine would be free of charge for Ghanaians. [14] Dr. Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Director of Public Health at GHS, pregnant women and children below 16 years were exempted from the first phase of the vaccination exercise. [15]
Ghana Infectious Disease Centre was commissioned by Vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia on 24 July 2020. He stated a sum of US$7.5 million was used to launch the centre. [5] It was established as Ghana's leading national public health institute. [citation needed]