The Central Region has recorded seven (7) confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.
This was confirmed by the Deputy Central Regional Director of Health in charge of Public Health, Dr. Kwabena Sarpong.
According to him, the Region had earlier recorded only two positive cases but five more were recorded after a contact-tracing was conducted by health officials.
Three of the infected persons are women and four are men with their ages ranging from twenty to seventy.
He further mentioned that one of the patients came from outside Central Region, another from Komenda Edina Eguafo Abraim District and five from Cape Coast.
Dr. Kwabena Sarpong stressed that almost all the positive cases recorded in the Region were having no symptoms of the virus.
“They were not coughing, sneezing, their temperature was normal but when we took their samples for testing it came out positive,” he said.
He ended by disclosing that the patients are currently being treated at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital while further contact tracing is being conducted.
Meanwhile, Ghana’s confirmed coronavirus cases has increased to 1042