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Seventy-one new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region this year.
This brings the number of COVID-19 cases in the municipality to 484 with 18 deaths.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Koforidua, the Municipal Health Director, Dr Edmund Ekow Kaitoo, said the new cases covered the first 26 days of January.
Patients quarantined at home
Dr Kaitoo said because there was no isolation centre in the municipality, the patients had been advised to quarantine at home, where they were receiving treatment.
According to him, members of the Municipal COVID-19 Emergency Response Team of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) had been visiting the patients at home to offer them the necessary support.