In addition to just the Greater Accra region, and the Greater Kumasi areas, the Northern Region and the Upper West Region have officially also caught the deadly Coronavirus infections.
The Northern Region today reported ten cases, said to have been imported into the region by a group of Guineans who had traveled from Accra to Tamale.
Reports also indicate that one infection has been recorded at Wa, the Upper West regional capital today.
The latest infections added to a new tally that has brought Ghana’s total caseload to 152 infections and 5 deaths.
Apparently, the escalation to the Northern and Upper West regions resulted from a massive exodus that has ensued as people travel from Accra and Kumasi to other parts of the country to escape a two week lockdown that has been imposed on Greater Accra and the Greater Kumasi area.
The ten Guineans who have tested positive are said to have traveled from Accra to the Northern region apparently in attempt to find a way out of the country which has closed all of its borders.
After the detection of their infection, they have been put in a quarantine facility thyat Government has opened in Tamale.
In the case of the one person detected with infection in the Upper West Region, he is said to have traveled from Accra to Wa, after initially traveling into the country from abroad.
The new infections make the two regions new hotspots for Ghana as far as the Covid-19 pandemic is concerned. With busloads of people traveling outside Accra, it is feared that President Akufo-Addo’s partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi in attempt to contain the spread of the virus may have been defeated even before the lockdown will start.