Ghana has confirmed two cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID- 19.
The news was authenticated by the country’s Ministry of Health as health officials screen for more cases.
According to the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the two cases were confirmed on Thursday, March 12, 2020.
He added that the two cases were imported from Norway and Turkey.
The coronavirus outbreak has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks.
He said he was “deeply concerned” by “alarming levels of inaction” over the virus.
A pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time.
However Dr Tedros said that calling the outbreak a pandemic did not mean the WHO was changing its advice about what countries should do.
He called on governments to change the course of the outbreak by taking “urgent and aggressive action”.
“Several countries have demonstrated that this virus can be suppressed and controlled,” he said.
