3 million Ghanaians likely test positive for coronavirus – President’s advisor on health Source: George Nyavor
3 million Ghanaians likely test positive for coronavirus – President’s advisor on health Source: George Nyavor www.waymatvafricablogspot.com Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said a model generated for coronavirus infections in Ghana projects that 10% of the population is likely to test positive. Making the revelation on Joy News’ current affairs programme PM Express on Tuesday evening, the former director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said out of the 10% projected infections, majority of the cases are likely to be asymptomatic. “We expect that about 10% of the population may be infected and out of the 10% of the population 80% may not show signs or symptoms at all and 5% of them will be very ill, that is the projection,” he said. With these projections, if Ghana’s population is estimated at 30 million, it implies some three million Ghanaians may test positive for the Covid-19 when infections peak. Also, 5% of the projected three million...