{"id":13963,"date":"2022-01-16T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/covid-19-active-cases-drop-after-omicron-surge"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:31:21","slug":"covid-19-active-cases-drop-after-omicron-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/covid-19-active-cases-drop-after-omicron-surge","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Active Cases Drop After Omicron Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Ghana&#8217;s active cases are currently on a decline according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Dr. Patrick Kuma \u2013 Aboagye, Director General of the GHS speaking in an interview on Peace FM&#8217;s morning show &#8216;Kokrokoo&#8217; said the number of cases is dropping because of people&#8217;s adherence to the COVID protocols. &#8220;Let&#8217;s pray that this goes on&#8230;I know very well that because of the Omicron surge, people started raising their self-protection and so if this continues we know it will come down further&#8221; he stated. Data on the GHS COVID-19 update page indicates that as of 10th January 2022 the active cases stood at 9,020 from a previous of 10,889. The new cases are 508 and 1,343 have so far died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Ghana&#8217;s active cases are currently on a decline according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Dr. Patrick Kuma \u2013 Aboagye, Director General of the GHS speaking in an interview on Peace FM&#8217;s morning show &#8216;Kokrokoo&#8217; said the number of cases is dropping because of people&#8217;s adherence to the COVID protocols. &#8220;Let&#8217;s pray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[5092,5096,5262,429,5832],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-covid-19","tag-ghana","tag-omicron"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: Active Cases Drop After Omicron Surge - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ghana&#039;s active cases are currently on a decline according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). 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