The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister Samuel Nuertey Ayertey has urged residents in Lower Manya Krobo to remain calm over the recorded case of COVID-19 in the municipality.
According to the Deputy Regional Minister, all necessary preventive protocols needed to contain the situation are being deployed to ensure no resident is infected.
An Indian expatriate with AFCON Construction Company working on Tema to Akosombo -Mpakadan Railway project tested positive to Coronavirus making it the first case to be recorded in the Eastern region.
According to the Deputy Minister for Eastern Region, Samuel Nuertey Ayertey who doubles as a Parliamentary Candidate for the NPP Party in Lower Manya Krobo, he together with the Municipal Chief Executive, Simon Kweku Tetteh, Regional Health Director, Dr. Alberta Biritwum Nyarko and her team, Municipal Health Directorate and other Front line Health workers moved the site of AFCON Construction to assess the situation on the ground.
He said “It must be noted that the victim is an expatriate and a worker of AFCON in their CAMP-B at Kpong who came into the Country a couple of days before the Mandatory quarantine was announced by the President. All the workers are currently undergoing mandatory quarantine and contact tracing is to be launched as the next line of action.
“It must, however, be noted that National protocol has to be followed in announcing this and other measures to be taken in and around the area”.
The Deputy Minister, therefore, allayed “fear of the general public especially residents of Lower Manya Krobo adding that he will do everything within his means to make sure the necessary attention is given to the people of the area”
The Minister of Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu announced Wednesday morning in Accra that, 34 news cases have been recorded which have increased the national figures from 161 as of Tuesday, March 31, 2020, to 195 in April 1, 2020.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
