The Western Region of Ghana is now the hotspot for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, has revealed.   The new cases are being recorded in Tarkwa, Sekondi and Takoradi.

As of Tuesday, 26 May 2020, the region had recorded a total of 334 cases of the disease.

The Obuasi area alone in Ashanti had recorded 272 cases out of the total regional count of 1,066.

"Ashanti Region also remains another key area where the Kumasi metro and Obuasi, but Obuasi is really under control and they are reporting virtually no [new] case now."

"The new hotspot is in Western Region, who reported about 57 new cases and these are currently. …Look like one of the new hotspots that are surging. It’s mainly the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis and then Tarkwa, so, a team will be going there to see how we can quickly assist the region to bring it under control the same way as we did in Obuasi.

“Even though the region has already isolated and identified and self-isolated the people, and are doing enhanced contact tracing to enhance containment."

Ghana has recorded a total of 6,964 COVD-19 cases, Dr Kuma Aboagye said.

Meanwhile, 2,097 of the infected persons have recovered.

Recovery means the patients have tested negative after two tests.

The number of deaths remains 32.