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The Professional Footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG) and the Ghana Beach Soccer Association have donated relief items to the Madina Polyclinic – Kekele in Accra.
The donation is to aid the Polyclinic and to support the government in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic which is killing millions across the globe.
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They donated items such as soaps, sanitizers and some personal protective equipments to the Polyclinic.
The @PFAGofficial and @beachsoccergh have donated relief package to the Madina Polyclinic-Kekele as COVID-19 continues to affect the global economy.
Several soaps, sanitisers and protective equipment were donated.
The gesture is to support government's fight against COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/nWnUFNf5gF
— PFAG (@PFAGofficial) April 19, 2020
Ghana has recorded 834 cases of the Coronavirus pandemic with 9 deaths according to the Ghana Health Service.
The Ghana Health Service is also 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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The first batch of of backlog, an additional 198 have been found to be positive, bringing Ghana’s total case count to 834 at the moment.
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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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A statement from the Ghana Health Service reads, “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.”
