Ghana has recorded 76 new cases of COVID-19, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said.

The country’s active cases are now 738, this, according to the Service has brought the country’s total confirmed cases to 131,547 as of December 8, 2021.

The Service also indicated that there were no people in critical condition but 22were in severe conditions.

According to the GHS, 129,566people have recovered from the virus but unfortunately1,243 people have died as a result of the infection.

The service said, it has so far conducted 2,026,343tests since the outbreak of the disease in March 2020 with a positivity rate of6.5 per cent.

On the regional case count, Greater  Accra leads with active cases of 377after recording 70,926 cases out of which70,262 have recovered and have been discharged followed by  Ashanti with 20,731  cases and 20,339recoveries and discharges.

Western Region has 7,473 recoveries out of 7,549 cases while Central Region has 4,862 cases with 4,811recoveries and discharges.

The Service also said that the Eastern Region has confirmed cases of 6,605with 6,465 recoveries and discharges while Oti has 839recoveries with 848 cases.

It also stated that, the Bono East Region have recorded 2,555cases out of which 2,490 people have recovered and have been discharged.

The Volta Region, the GHS said has a total of5,412 cases out of which 5,331were recoveries and discharges thereby leaving the region with 2 active cases.

The Bono Region has a total 2,033 recoveries and discharges out of 2,124 cases leaving it with 2active cases.

The Ahafo Region has 1,060 cases with 1,028 recoveries while Savannah Region has 262 cases with 259 recoveries.

North East has 283 cases with 272 recoveries, Northern has 1,767 cases with 1,730 recoveries while Western North has 1,006 cases with 994 recoveries.

The Service said the Upper East Region has 1,495 cases with 1,438 recoveries, the Upper West has 743 cases with 709 recoveries while the International travellers (KIA) has 3,319 cases with 3,093 recoveries.

The GHS has, therefore, called for stricter enforcement of the COVID-19 safety protocols to help combat the pandemic.

The Service has also appealed to unvaccinated members of the public to go in for the COVID-19 jab to ensure that the country’s target for herd immunity was achieved, while preventing the vaccines from going bad.

Additionally, the GHS has declared December as vaccine month in order to forestall a similar situation last year where there was a major upsurge in the number of cases in the country after the yuletide.

Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS, addressing the media in Accra said the declaration of December as the vaccine month was to enable as many Ghanaians as possible to be vaccinated against the disease.