General News of Sunday, 21 June 2020Source: 3 NewsRecovered coronavirus patients may have remnants of virus but can’t infect – GHSDirector of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu SarkodieThe Ghana Health Service says although some recovered or discharged novel coronavirus patients may continue to have remnants of the deadly virus in their system, such persons are not a threat to others. That, he indicated, the scientific evidence resulted in the WHO issuing a new guideline for the discharge of COVID-19 patients, which Ghana and other countries have now adopted. Dr Badu Sarkodie, however, said with the new scientific evidence and WHO guideline; infected persons are now to be discharged if they showed mild or no symptoms 14 days after their first negative. Commenting on the 15 COVID-19 deaths announced by health officials Saturday, Dr Badu Sarkodie said those are not new deaths as some have suggested. Ghana’s confirmed cases stand at 13,717 with 85 deaths and 10,074 recoveries while the number of active cases is now 3,558.

Source: GhanaWeb June 21, 2020 11:03 UTC