The Upper East Region has recorded four new cases of the novel coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases to eight.
A statement issued by the Regional Health Directorate and signed by the Regional Director, Dr. Winfred Ofosu, says the Upper East Region has also recorded one death from the virus.
The statement said; “Of the four cases, three are contacts of the first confirmed case and for the first time, one of the cases was detected through routine surveillance in the Bawku Municipality.”
“Unfortunately, the case in Bawku passed on before the laboratory results were received from KCCR. However, being a suspected case [at the time], burial was appropriately supervised,”
The statement also said the directorate “has initiated steps to communicate the results to affected persons and to immediately identify all contacts of the for new cases for immediate quarantine.”
