Academics at the School of Public Health of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have published a paper that reviews of the current coronavirus situation in Ghana, with future forecast elucidating direction of the disease to provide decision-makers and communities with actionable information on warning systems, healthcare services preparedness, economic decision making and prioritisation of resources.
In the paper, the authors, Arti Singh, Sampson Twumasi-Ankrah, Augustina Sylverken, Michael Owusu and Ellis Owusu-Dabo explain the morbidity and mortality impact from the disease and the long-term consequences of the virus on peoples’ sustenance.
They also present critical data from the WHO/African CDC repository and with a robust methodology to provide spatio-temporal trajectories of Covid-19 for Ghana.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such attempt and accounts for the local context and characteristics relevant to both the epidemiology and evolution of the disease with the nation in mind,” the authors say in the paper published in full below.
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