Out of the 22 coronavirus deaths recorded in Ghana as a result of the novel coronavirus, 90.9% of such cases had comorbidities, meaning they had an underlying health condition according to the Ghana Health Service.
Only two of the deaths recorded, however, did not have comorbidities.
According to Dr Badu Sarkodie, Head of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Greater Accra recorded the highest number of deaths of 68.2% and followed by the Ashanti region with 18.2%.
The Upper East region is third with 9.1% and the North East region 4th and last with 4.5%
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Hypertension is the highest cause of death among the COVID-19 victims, representing 72.7%.
It was followed by diabetes, fever, asthma, obesity, stroke, prostatic condition, acute kidney injury, statisticia pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure.
The youngest among the COVID-19 deaths is nine years old whilst the oldest is 62 years.
More men are said to be victims of COVId-19 death compared to women. The ratio is 2.14 to 1.00.
Ghana has so far recorded 5127 COVID-19 cases as at May 12, 2020
494 persons have so far recovered.
Source:MyNewsGh.com/
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