The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research into Tropical Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology (KNUST) has confirmed a third case of the coronavirus in Ghana.
Peacefm News Senior Correspondent in the Ashanti Region, Sampson Kwame Nyamekye who reported this during the station's Midday bulletin, explained that the latest case involves an expatriate worker of Anglo Gold Ashanti (AGA).
"....the expatriate reportedly returned to the country after a trip abroad this week and flew to Obuasi via helicopter....he has currently been quarantined and undergoing medical observation whilst contact tracing is in process...
"A team of medical experts from Kumasi have also been dispatched to Obuasi to assist their colleagues to help contain the situation," he narrated.
Listen to his report below
First Cases of Coronavirus Announced
In a late evening televised press conference Thursday, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, confirmed that coronavirus cases have been recorded in the country.
Flanked by the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, and the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Badu Sarkodie, the Health Minister said the two cases were confirmed on Thursday at the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research.
Norwegian & Ghanaian From Turkey
According to him, the two persons infected by the pandemic had just returned from Norway and Turkey and that they were imported cases.
"Both patients are currently being kept in isolation and are stable. We have initiated processes for contact tracing," the Minister said.
$100m To Fight COVID-19 In Ghana
On Wednesday, there was a similar late evening address by President Nana Akufo-Addo, in which he stated that with the fast-spreading infection recorded at all three of Ghana’s immediate neighbors – Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast – "by the law of averages", Ghana would soon record its first case.
He then announced the allocation of $100 million to fight the virus in the event of an outbreak in Ghana.
66 Cases So Far Tested
Ghana has so far tested 66 suspected cases of coronavirus at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research.
The disease since it was reported in late last year in Hubei Province of Wuhan in China, the epicenter of the disease, has spread to 120 countries and territories with 118,000 reported cases and about 4000 deaths.
Symptoms of Coronavirus
Symptoms of Coronavirus include; fever, cough, and difficulty in breathing which could be fatal.
The disease is spread through coughing and sneezing; close personal unprotected by touching or contact with an infected person).
Presently, various treatment options are being explored, there is no cure, treatment is mainly symptomatic, there is no vaccine and prevention is mainly by adherence to cough and sneezing etiquette and improved personal hygiene.
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When you decide to play and propaganda and politics with everything, it comes with consequences. The president will be blamed if things get out of hand. When they reminded him to cut his trip shot to attend to pressing needs internally, we had some ***barred word*** Ghanaians doing his bid as if the president is using his persona money to take care of this country. Now we see our smoothness level. Gyimie nkoa na aka Ghanafouo binom. He is the most inept president GHANA has ever had, an overhyped president. Apuu
All our boarder should be closed, no aircraft should be allowed to enter Ghana. the camera does detect any virus it only detect temperature when you have fever, so if have the virus and you do have fever the camera will not see it. every body entering Ghana must quarantine for at least 3 weeks, after period quarantine laboratory test must be perform on the fellow to ascertain whether he or she got it or not. If the authorities do not think fast as Saudi Arabia we will leave to regret
100 million dollars on my mind. Boys go chop
GES should as a matter of urgency shut down day schools.
There is laxity at the points of entry and that can spell disaster if care is not taken. The most effective preventive measure is to automatically quarantine anyone who comes into the country.Almost every country now has at least a case and it is therefore reasonable to suspect anyone coming into our borders.The attitude should be: "you are positive until declared negative through testing". Contact tracing in Ghana won't be effective.
Please, ban all travels for now to contain the situation. It is going to be terrible if foreigners, expatriates and Ghanaians are allowed into the country in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that has been declared by WHO. We can use all available precautions, but if the above mentioned measures are not adhered to, it will be difficult to contain the situation.
Halt all church services for the next 2weeks to halt spread , that where most elderly will gather . Mortality is higher within the elderly . Preaching can be done on radio or television or one can read his/her Bible .