The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has recorded 88 COVID-19 Omicron deaths between December 2021 and 13 January 2022, despite the decline in positive cases.<\/p>\n Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the director-general of the GHS, disclosing this in a media engagement, said in December 2021, a total of 64 deaths were recorded with the remaining 24 recorded as of 13 January 2022.<\/p>\n He said apart from the Omicron variant, Delta and Alpha variant cases were also being recorded.<\/p>\n Kuma-Aboagye said the country was in the fourth wave of the pandemic and was hopeful that the decline in active cases would be a signal to gradually end the fourth.<\/p>\n Data on the GHS COVID-19 update website indicate that the number of active cases has reduced from 13,025 to 10,889 as of 8 January 2022.<\/p>\n The update indicates that a total of 152,729 cases have been confirmed with 1,336 deaths and seven in critical condition.<\/p>\n Kuma-Aboagye said, \u201cThis is the steepest wave\u201d the country had experienced, recording over 1,000 cases in a day.<\/p>\n He urged the citizenry to go for the jabs to stem the spread of the disease and adhere to the safety protocols.<\/p>\n As of 10 January, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has administered a total of 9, 004, 025 COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n Dr Kuma-Aboagye said science and data showed that the vaccines had been helpful, saying, \u201cso we will continue to engage and educate to ensure more people vaccinate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has recorded 88 COVID-19 Omicron deaths between December 2021 and 13 January 2022, despite the decline in positive cases. Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the director-general of the GHS, disclosing this in a media engagement, said in December 2021, a total of 64 deaths […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[287,1634,1705,989,1706],"class_list":["post-749689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-deaths","tag-ghs","tag-months","tag-omicron","tag-recorded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Patrick](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/10248861.295.jpg\" "\\"Patrick")
Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n