The Municipal Chief Executive for Lower Manya Krobo, Simon Kwaku Tetteh has asserted that the Indian expatriate tested positive for Coronavirus did not spread the disease to other workers contrary to widely peddled rumor.
According to him, the expatriate was monitored after he returned to Ghana and was advised to observe self-isolation, therefore, he did not mingle with colleague railway workers.
Test results of about two hundred (200) quarantined staff of AFCON Company, Indian construction firm working on Tema to Akosombo – Mpakadan railway project was expected to be released Monday, April 6, 2020, but findings not made public yet.
The samples were taken last week after an Expatriate tested Positive to COVID-19.
The case is the first to be recorded in the Eastern Region.
The staff have since last week been under Police guard to avoid escaping from the yard where they have been quarantined.
The MCE for Lower Manya said findings of the result would soon be made known to the public but in the meantime have allayed fears of community spread.
The MCE said this when he joined the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, who is also a Parliamentary Candidate in the area for the ruling New Patriotic Party to continue public education and donation of Personal Protective Equipments(PPE) and other handwashing facilities to residents of Kpong and Akuse.
This is the third time the Parliamentary Candidate is embarking on this mass distribution exercise in the bid to protect his constituents and whip them in line to complying and adhering to health safety protocols of COVID-19.
The materials distributed include quantities of nose masks, Veronica hand washing buckets, alcohol-based hand sanitizers, liquid soaps, and tissues.
The Deputy Minister, Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, admonished residents to desist from spreading fear and panic among them and rather adhere to the safety measures to curtail the spread of the deadly virus.
Ghana has recorded a total of 287 cases of COVID-19 as of April 7, 2020, with five fatalities.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
