Three new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in the capital of the Western Region; Sekondi Takoradi.
This puts the city’s case counts at twenty-two (22), and the regional tally at sixty-four (64).
The Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality follows with case count of nineteen (19), and then the Ahanta West Municipality with six (6) cases.
The Regional Health Directorate in their 32nd Daily Situational Report, stressed on the need for each district to prepare an isolation center to manage the rising cases of disease.
These center’s are to complement what have been prepared in thirteen (13) health facilities in the region.
The latest in this development, is that the Ahanta West Municipality have refurbished a six-bed capacity health center to be used as a treatment center.
Gold Fields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa have also assigned a twenty-five (25) rooms to be used as an isolation center to manage cases in the area.
Kindly find out from the Regional health directorate where the 22 cases in Sekondi-Takoradi are being managed. Which communities/areas in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly are hot spot.
Daniel, most of these cases according to the health directorate are asymptomatic and as such are being managed in the homes of the patients.