A research study fellow with the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has actually regretted the government’s hold-up in updating Ghanaians with present figures of COVID-19 in the country.
According to Kwame Sarpong Asiedu of the CDD, the practice has the tendency to increase public mistrust and suspicion for the government.
“Since Kumasi had their press conference today, we are going clear 4,5, 6 hours of delays, What is preventing them from telling us what the current data in Accra, Tamale, and other places are. When you do things like that you subject the entire data to mistrust and that does not urger well for society in times like these,” The CDD fellow told Accra based Starr FM.
It comes hours after the Health directorate in the Ashanti area updated its numbers of COVID-19 cases in the region. The Eastern region has actually also upgraded its numbers.
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According to the government, Ghana has actually tape-recorded an overall of 1042 confirmed cases of coronavirus after testing an overall of 68,591 samples since April 19, 2020.
Overall samples evaluated so far now stands at 68,591 with 1.52 % testing positive. The results of these backlog of samples when released does not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report. Regions that have reported cases remain the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East regions.
