By Adama Makasuba
The Ministry of Health has said twenty-one new cases of coronavirus have been recorded – including 14 male and 7 females but 6 of the new cases are epi-linked to recently confirmed cases.
This followed over a month of optimism as the country virus cases were declining.
But critics accused the President meet-the-people-tour who saw crowd gathering with few people wearing facemasks with no physical distancing exercise.
“No new COVID-19 death recorded 21 new cases registered, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases ever confirmed in the country to 3,833. This is the highest single-day number of cases recorded in over 5 weeks. 265 new laboratory test results received (17 from MRC and 248 from NPHL) of these, 21 new samples tested positive, representing a 7.9% test positivity rate,” the Ministry’s statement disclosed.
The statement added that 20 high-risk contacts [of recently confirmed cases] have been identified and their follow-up began in earnest
