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Following the reopening of schools after nearly 10 months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ghana Health Service has said that upper secondary schools (SHS) produced the highest number of Covid-19 cases.
Currently, the schools with the largest access points in the country are the Volta, Western, Greater Accra and Eastern regions.
By accounting for the regional breakdown of Covid-19 cases in schools, the Service revealed that the Volta Region currently has the highest number of active Covid-19 cases registered in 20 schools.
As of March 21, a total of 467 Covid-19 cases were reported to have been recorded in different unidentified schools in the Volta region.
Approximately 100 students from these schools have been infected with the deadly virus. So far, 367 students have recovered.
Meanwhile, no coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded.
Along the same lines, 47 schools in the Greater Accra region have also registered active cases of Covid-19.
The current active cases in these schools are 49, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 195.
So far, 146 students have recovered without fatalities.
Surprisingly, schools in the northern part of the country recorded a low number of Covid-19 cases.
In the Savannah region, a school registered nine cases and fortunately all the students have recovered. So far, there are no active cases in the region.
Also, there were no cases of Covid-19 in the northeast region.
