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Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has expressed optimism over the country's combat against the spread of COVID-19.

Dr. Okoe Boye was hopeful Ghana shall overcome the disease and therefore called on Ghanaians not to despair over the pandemic.

He was responding to the news that Ghana's number of COVID-19 cases has dwindled significantly.

Ghana has recorded a low figure in its COVID-19 new and active cases.

Per updates by the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the total number of cases stands at 41,847 with 39,718 recoveries/discharges.

This brings the active cases to 1,906.

Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye, speaking in an interview on Peace FM midday news on Thursday, attributed the decline to the strict adherence to the coronavirus safety protocols.

Making his submissions on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Dr. Okoe Boye shared a solid belief that Ghanaians will survive the pandemic.

When asked why he is so hopeful about the COVID-19 battle, he told the host Kwami Sefa Kayi that ''it is better to be hopeful and avoid depression and even for the worse to happen than to have died before the real time".

He added that the world has been plagued by lots of pandemic diseases and yet majority of the world's population have survived, hence his affirmative response to the current pandemic.

"If you study diseases and outbreaks across the world from 13th Century, you know the world population has faced a lot of plagues. There are some plagues that wiped two-thirds of the known world at that time. The point I'm making is that it has been established that any point in time in history, some of the population survive. It is because of the survival story of those who came before us, me too, I am emboldened to believe that come what may, unfortunately the journey will be characterized by some loss of lives, but the majority of us shall make it.''