COVID-19 Update: Western Region case count shoots to 149

Reports released by the Western Region Health Directorate indicate that the Western Region has recorded twenty-one (21) new COVID-19 cases. The region’s total case count has now risen to one hundred, and forty-nine (149) cases.

The region still has one recovery and one death recorded. This is contained in the Western Region Updates on COVID-19 report released today, Wednesday, May 20, 2020.

The Region’s epicentre; Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis now has eighty-one (81) cases, followed by Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality with thirty-three (33) cases. The Ahanta West Municipality comes third with ten (10) cases.

From the Report, the Region has some three thousand, and eighty-seven (3,087) pending cases, with some three thousand, nine hundred and thirty-eight (3,938) contacts traced from four thousand, six hundred, and thirty contacts listed.