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Western Region has recorded its first case of the Coronavirus pandemic, according to the Ghana Health Service.
The Ghana Health Service announced on Sunday that Western region and the Volta Region have joined the regions in the country to have recorded a case.
According to the Ghana Health Service, Western region have recorded just a single case while Volta Region recorded nine.
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However, the Western Regional Minister Hon. Kwabena Okyere Darko has explained that the region’s Coronavirus patient is a Chinese national who has been put in isolation for the past fourteen days.
“The Western Region on Sunday 12th April, 2020 recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. The confirmed case in question involves a Chinese foreign national, who arrived in Ghana on Saturday 21st March, 2020 and was in self-isolation for the mandatory period of 14 days.
“Though he showed no symptoms of the virus, the medical team took his sample for testing on 8th April, 2020 to confirm his status; which unfortunately tested positive on the 12th of April, 2020.
The said Chinese is one of the six (6) Chinese nationals and 32 Ghanaians working at Coastal Quarry located near Anto in the Shama District.
According to a statement from the Regional Minster, “A combined team of medical and security personnel is currently at work at the site. It is understandable but also regrettable that in times like these, there will be lots of misinformation and false news carried through social media which unfortunately filter into the mainstream media.
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“It is therefore imperative that the facts concerning any confirmed or suspected case are checked from the Health Authorities before putting it in the public domain.”
He therefore appealed to the public to remain calm, and all those who might have come into contact with personnel of this company, to cooperate with the medical team for expedited contact tracing in order to curb the spread of the virus.
He urged all MMDCEs and Public Health Emergency Management Committees to ensure that all persons released, without testing, after their 14-day self -isolation or mandatory quarantine at the various places are brought back for testing.
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He called on Chiefs and the good people of the Western Region to remain vigilant and to cooperate with the Health and Security Personnel to ensure that the virus does not get out of hand in the Western Region.
Hon. Okyere Darko added that, all recreational centres are out of bounds to the members of the public in furtherance of the ban on social gatherings and urged the security agencies to be hard on this.
