Mass testing’s are underway in Donkorkrom Agriculture Senior High School and St. Dominic Senior High Technical School in Afram Plains North and Denkyembuor Districts respectively after each school recorded a Covid-19 case last week.
The two cases are currently the only active cases in the Eastern Region
According to the Ghana Health Service, a total of 2,217, students in 351schools at all levels of education across the country contracted the COVID-19 virus.
However over 96% have recovered remaining only 48 active cases; 46 in Accra, with two cases in the Eastern region.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the detection of the highly contagious variant of Coronavirus – Delta, at the Achimota School, in the Greater Accra Region.
Three students of the school reported influenza-like symptoms at the school’s sickbay between June 14 and 16, 2021.
They were tested in line with laid down protocols, and all three results turned out positive. They were isolated, and all contacts were placed under mandatory quarantine on campus.
Subsequently, other symptomatic students and contacts were identified, listed, and also tested for COVID-19.
The majority of the students who tested positive are, however, day students.
Providing details during a press briefing by the Information Ministry on Sunday, July 4, Director-General of the GHS, Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye, unpacked that majority of the students in Achimota were tested positive of the highly contagious Delta Variant.
“We had a significant number of the initial testing we did at Achimota School as Delta variant. So once we have that, we assume that because it is the source that was spread around, the majority of the variant there will be the Delta variant. That is why we are doing the strategic testing of day students so that it doesn’t spill into the community”, he said.
According to him, 843 students in the school had been sampled by the health authorities as of July 3, 2021.
Out of this number, 348 are boarders while the remaining 459 are day students. 36 teaching and non-teaching staff has also been tested.
The results of only 550 samples are currently available, according to data from the Ghana Health Service.
135 of these samples taken in the school came out as positive.
Results of 293 samples are pending because they are samples of day students collected on July 3.
Currently, Ghana’s active cases stand at 1,619 with over 700 deaths. These cases are seeing a marginal spike in July with 10 cases recorded so far.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
