COVID-19: Ghana's active cases fall below 500

Per the latest figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) however,  the total cumulative count has increased marginally to 45,877 with 45,081 recoveries.

The death toll is pegged at  297 

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For regional distribution, one more region has joined the list of regions that do not have any active COVID-19 cases.

This brings to five the number of regions that have zero active cases.

They are North East, Northern, Savannah, Upper West and now Bono Region.

The Greater Accra Region still leads with the highest number of active cases. The region currently has 399 cases of COVID-19.

Ashanti Region, which previously had the second-highest number of active cases, has been overtaken by the Central Region.

Central Region currently has 26 active cases followed by the Eastern Region with 24 cases.

Ashanti Region at the moment holds the fourth highest active COVID-19 cases in Ghana with 22 pending cases.

During the initial stages of COVID-19 in Ghana, government imposed a number of restrictions on the country in a bid to contain the pandemic.

Some of them included a three-week partial lockdown in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas, and the closure of schools and religious institutions.

See below the case count per region, and recoveries breakdown