The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research says it has cleared the backlog of COVID-19 samples, giving it room to conduct tests and provide results within 24 hours.
The backlog was cleared last weekend and the results was part of the 550 new cases which brought Ghana’s total case count to 2,719.
The country is, however, awaiting the test results of about 1,982 COVID-19 samples from the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR). The backlog from the KCCR is expected to be cleared by Thursday. Director of Virology at Noguchi, Prof William Ampofo disclosed this to Journalists in Accra yesterday.
In a related development, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Aboagye says they are awaiting the second test results of about 200 patients who tested negative for the Coronavirus after their initial positive tests.
He also noted that about 453 persons have been treated at isolation centres across the country. Dr. Aboagye said Ghana has so far tested 129,461 samples since the first case was reported on March 12.
