More than
400 health workers in the Bono East Region have contracted the coronavirus
disease in the last two months, Health authorities in the region have revealed.
Out of a
total of 1,191 positive cases in the region, 420 are health workers.
A total
of 408 positive cases were recorded in the months of January and February 2021.
The
Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Fred Adomako Boateng explained that
the region recorded 788 positive cases during the first wave within a period of
seven months.
However,
the second wave of the outbreak from January to February 2020 (two months) has
seen the region recording 408 cases which is almost half of what the region got
for seven months.
Dr. Fred
Adomako Boateng attributed the increasing number of cases in the area to the
increase in test amongst health workers and the neglect of COVID-19 safety
protocols by some residents.
Meanwhile, Ghana’s COVID-19 active cases stand at
4,866 with 647 deaths as of the morning of March 8, 2021.
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