Ghana’s active cases of the COVID-19 disease are rising as the yuletide approaches.
The country currently has 2,428 active cases of the novel coronavirus.
According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), 509 new infections were recorded as of December 17, 2021.
This is a sharp rise compared to the 1,954 active cases as recorded by the Ghana Health Service for December 16, with 437 new persons succumbing to the disease.
Prior to this figure, the service projected 973 active cases with 71 new cases as at December 13, 2021.
However, the GHS, on December 8, 2021, announced 738 active cases while the new cases stood at 76.
The data shows a consistent surge in the number of active cases as the country readies itself to celebrate the Christmas festival.
Meanwhile, aside the fall on December 13, the number of new cases has been on a steady rise per the GHS’ data.
The country has recorded a total of 133,555 confirmed cases since the inception of the Covid-19 outbreak on March 12, 2020.
Further information reveals that 24 persons out of the total number of cases are in severe condition but number of people considered to be in critical situation stands at zero.
Additionally, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two people have been treated and discharged accordingly.
Health professionals, who have expressed worry about the rise in the numbers, have attributed the surge to lack of adherence and complete disregard for the COVID-19 protocols by the public at functions.
In a bid to avoid a surge, government has declared December as vaccination month as it aims at reaching head immunity and defusing myths around the vaccines to lower vaccine hesitancy.
As part of efforts to pervert a spike in the COVID-19 cases, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for suspension of all events during the Christmas season.
“An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled. It’s better to cancel now and celebrate later, than to celebrate now and grieve later”.
On his part, the Director-General of the GHS, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye has called on event organisers to involve the service in their planning of events
