Ghana's active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have spiked to 5,358 as of Friday, January 29, 2020.

The mortalities have also increased to 416, after about 64 persons died from the virus in the past two weeks.

This was made known by President Akufo-Addo, in his nationwide televised address on COVID-19 on Sunday, January 31.

Expressing concern about the severity of the pandemic, the President said the current situation has gotten worse than last two weeks when he delivered his 22nd COVID-19 address.

"The hope was that we would begin to see an improvement in our case count, as a result. Two weeks on from that address, the situation is even worse".

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He said the infection rate has jumped from 200 to 700 daily since his last update.

"Our hospitals have become full, and we have had to reactivate our isolation centres. Our average daily rates of infection now stand at seven hundred (700), compared to two hundred (200) two weeks ago.

As of Friday, 29^th January, sixty-four (64) more people have, sadly, died, over the last two weeks, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths to four hundred and sixteen (416). Our hospitalization rates are increasing, with the number of critically and severely ill persons now at one hundred and seventy-two (172).

The total number of active cases has more than doubled, from a little over one thousand, nine hundred (1,900), two weeks ago, to five thousand, three hundred and fifty-eight (5,358) currently".

 Akufo-Addo reimposes stricter measures to help curb the spread of the virus and advised Ghanaians to adhere to the safety protocols.