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The Takoradi Technical University (TTU) hearing-impaired students have contributed their quota to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic in the country.
The students donated locally-made nose masks and other personal protective equipments to three media houses in the Western region namely Rokk FM, Connect FM and Skyy Power FM.
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Speaking during the presentation, the head of the Disabilities Support and Services at the Takoradi Technical University, Mr. Oti Asrifi Mensah Joseph commended the government for involving sign interpretors in the Coronavirus education on the various traditional media platforms.
The General Manager of Rokk FM Georges Owusu Sarfo on behalf of the stations, expressed their profound gratitude to the school for the surprise gesture.
Mr. Owusu Sarfo who was overwhelmed with the gesture, urged the students to continue pursuing their heart desires and not let their present condition to deter them from achieving their goals in life.
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Coronavirus cases in Ghana
The Ghana Health Service announced that, so far the country has recorded 834 cases of the pandemic with 9 deaths.
Their statement reads, “Ghana Health Service is supervising the completion of a backlog of laboratory samples which have been picked for testing as part of the COVID-19 testing exercise. This is after some 57,000 samples have already been successfully tested as at April 15th 2020.
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“In the first batch of this backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive. This will bring Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment. The general public is however advised that this does not represent new infections that are occurring. It represents results from tests of a backlog of samples.
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“The laboratories have been working day and night to test this large number of samples. Hopefully in the next few days all the testing would be completed.
“Total samples tested so far now stands at 60, 916 with 1.37 % testing positive. The results of these backlog of samples when released does not mean the number of new cases recorded on the day of the report.
“Regions that have reported cases are Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Northern, Volta, Upper East, Upper West, Central, Western and North East.”
