Question

The below contains the actual data on COVID-19 cases in Ghana from 1st April, 2020 to 25th May, 2020 as presented by the Ghana Health Service. Use the information provided to answer the following questions:

1. Construct a graph to show the trends of the COVID-19 confirmed cases and fatalities in Ghana, and speculate on the factors that might have influenced these trend

Date	Total confirmed	Death	Recoveries	Test
1-Apr	195	5	3	12046
2-Apr	204	5	3	12046
3-Apr	205	5	3	12046
4-Apr	214	5	3	12046
6-Apr	287	5	3	12046
7-Apr	313	6	3	12046
9-Apr	378	6	4	14611
10-Apr	408	8	4	27348
11-Apr	566	8	4	37954
15-Apr	641	8	83	50719
18-Apr	834	8	83	60916
19-Apr	1042	8	83	68591
22-Apr	1279	10	134	88188
25-Apr	1550	11	155	100622
27-Apr	1671	16	188	106090
28-Apr	2074	17	212	113497
1-May	2169	18	229	117049
2-May	2719	18	294	129461
4-May	3091	18	303	135902
7-May	4012	18	323	149948
8-May	4263	22	378	155201
10-May	4700	22	494	160501
11-May	5127	22	494	162184
12-May	5408	24	514	165433
13-May	5530	24	674	168685
14-May	5638	28	1460	172623
15-May	5735	29	1754	174077
17-May	5918	31	1754	180567
18-May	6096	31	1774	184343
19-May	6269	31	1898	187929
20-May	6486	31	1951	192194
21-May	6617	31	1978	193705
22-May	6683	32	1998	194763
23-May	6809	32	2070	198175
24-May	6964	32	2097	202130
25-May	7117	34	2317	203383

Answer 1

Graph:

The foremost factors which have set the trend in highly increasing confirmed cases was a rapid active testing, which helped to record as many infected people as possible in a single day. As we can see the difference between posotive cases has incresed as the days increasing and at the last column we can see even the testing rate has increased.

The number of deaths at later stages have increased, but it is proportinal to that of infected. Not, directly proportional but the number of fatalities have a small amount of significance with the growing number of infected person.