
<p class="has-drop-cap">A model generated for the <a href="https://occupygh.com/category/coronavirus">coronavirus</a> (COVID-19) infections in Ghana has projected that some 15,000 people may be killed by the raging virus, Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has revealed. [Video below]</p>



<p>The model follows the lifting of the lockdown directive on some parts of the country on Monday, April, 20, 2020, he said.</p>



<p>According to Dr Nsiah-Asare, this projection is also based on a baseline projection that 10% of Ghanaians are likely to test positive for the virus before infections peak.</p>



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<p>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.</p>



<p>“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.</p>



<p><strong>Breakdown</strong></p>



<p>With these projections, if Ghana’s population is pegged at 30 million, it implies some three million Ghanaians may get infected for the Covid-19.</p>



<p>Also, 5% of the projected three million infections falling seriously sick suggests that at least 150, 000 will fall within this category.</p>



<p>Out the 150,000 people whose infection will be serious, 10% of will be fatal; which means 15,000 deaths would have been recorded before Ghana gets out of the woods.</p>



<p>Dr Nsiah-Asare, however, said this modelling may not apply strictly to Ghana because of the observed dynamics of infected cases across the country.</p>



<p>“If you look at the cases that we are seeing, the cases that are getting critical are very, very small…it means, we have a situation where this hypothesis may be the case in Ghana,” he clarified on PM Express.</p>



<p>Ghana’s coronavirus caseload stands at 1,042, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced on Sunday, April, 19, 2020.</p>



<p>Out of this number, only nine people have died from the Covid0-19, the disease caused by the virus.</p>



<p>The current caseload is a significant leap of 208 cases from the last update of 843 posted by the Ghana Health Service on Saturday.</p>



<p>The President said in a televised broadcast that the latest figure is the result of an aggressive contact tracing as well as enhanced testing capacity by the Ghana Health Service.</p>



<p>The President said a total of 68,591 have been tested for the virus out of which 67,549 tested negative representing 98.5% while a 1,042 have tested (1.5%) tested positive for the coronavirus.</p>



<p>The 99 persons who have recovered constitutes 9.5%, total number of deaths recorded still stood at nine (0.9%), the president told the nation.</p>



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