Residents of the Wa West District have refused to visit health centres for health care when they get ill with the fear of contracting the novel coronavirus disease.
According to some residents of Poyentanga in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region, they cannot risk travelling in a public transport and also to public facilities such as the health centre although a lot of people were getting sick. They believe the disease is not in their village so they are safe.
“We have lived with a lot of sicknesses such as malaria and others but no one told us not to go out, but with this disease, they said we should not go out because if we go out, we are likely to contract it”, Mr Yuorido Kakariba, a native of the community said.
Meanwhile the COVID-19 case count for Ghana has reached 11,118 after 262 new cases were recorded.
Death toll of the country still stands at 48 whereas 3,979 people have now recovered.
Of the 262 new cases, 144 were detected through routine surveillance while 118 were as a result of the enhanced contact-tracing exercise after 3,230 samples were tested.
Four of the 24 persons critically ill in health facilities in Accra and Kumasi are currently on ventilators.
Regional breakdown is found below
Greater Accra Region – 6,888
Ashanti Region – 1,989
Western Region – 909
Central Region – 584
Volta Region – 212
Eastern Region – 204
Upper East Region – 128
Western North Region – 79
Oti Region – 48
Northern Region – 37
Upper West Region – 22
Bono East Region – 13
North East Region – 2
Savannah Region – 1
Bono Region – 1
Ahafo Region – 1
