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Director of Health Promotions at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Aboagye Da-Costa has put paid to questioning eyebrows raised, especially by Spokesperson for former President John Dramani Mahama, Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari on the recent figures of COVID-19 recovery cases.

Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari, on her social media page, wondered how 790 COVID-19 patients recovered overnight in the latest updates released by the Ghana Health Service; calling on all to put the numbers to strict proof to ascertain the veracity or otherwise.

“How the hell did 790 more people recover overnight!!...We need to put these numbers to strict proof!!” She tweeted.

Reacting to this on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, the Director of Health Promotions at the Ghana Health Service indicated that the medical team has the capacity to test at least 5,000 patients a day.

He added that the enhanced contact tracing strategy created a lot of backlogs of which the medical team has cleared thm all.

“...those we identified as positives, after the 14 days period, we began to test them and right now we have the capacity to test at least 5,000 patients a day and so that what we have scaled up, hence the reason why the number of recoveries is going higher and it is not like we have sat somewhere to inflate the figures of the recovery cases; we cannot do that,” he pointed out.

He explained that the 790 recovery cases recorded overnight came from the backlogs of which a lot of them had already tested one negative and it was left with a confirmatory test and it was made possible due to the robust recovery system in place.

“ . . right now that we have scaled up the exercise, the numbers will keep rising; the recovery will keep rising and I want to assure Ghanaians that we are doing a professional work and so we have not inflated the number of recoveries to deceive Ghanaians. The recovery case figures are accurate,” he stressed.

Dr. Aboagye Da-Costa however assured Ghanaians that the medical team who are leading the fight against the COVID-19 will continue with the world celebrated contact tracing methodology for a while as they want to break the transmission and to limit the community spread to barest minimum.

“When the President lifted the partial lockdown, we continued with the contact tracing and I am certainly sure that it will continue for a while before because we want to break the transmission. We want to limit the community spread, the barest minimum and so our method that the world is celebrating will not be thrown away; we will continue to do it,” he assured.