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Five other people have died from COVID-19 in Ghana.
This brought the death toll in the country to 577.
Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced.
The latest GHS update on Sunday also revealed that 113 people were currently in severe conditions, while 29 others were in critical condition.
In addition, the number of active cases in the country jumped again to 6,658 after a slight drop seen in recent days, which brought the number of active cases to 6,567 as of Saturday, February 20, 2021.
This follows the confirmation of 598 new cases of infections across the country.
These cases came from tests carried out on February 18 of this year.
However, 502 people have also recovered since the last update, bringing the total clinical recoveries and discharges to 73,018.
Active cases are being managed at treatment sites, isolation centers across the country, while some are being managed at home, GHS said.
Ghana has so far recorded a total of 80,253 cases of the virus since it confirmed its first two cases in March 2020.
Of the total confirmed cases, 28,829 were from General Surveillance; 50,221 cases of the enhanced contact tracing, while 1,203 have been recorded by international travelers disembarking at Kotoka International Airport since it reopened on September 1, 2020, according to the update.
So far, a total of 868,173 tests have been performed, of which 266,157 are from routine surveillance, 436,556 from contact tracing, and 165,460 from international travelers arriving through Kotoka International Airport.
The positivity rate is 9.2%.
Currently, the sixteen regions have an active file.
— GNA
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