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Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Minister of Health is the latest casualty to contract the coronavirus and is gradually recuperating.
According to a report carried by Citi News, the Minister is currently receiving treatment at the University of Ghana Medical Center in Accra for the past week.
According to multiple sources, the Dormaa Central MP was admitted on Tuesday, June 9 where he’s been receiving treatment since.
Mr. Manu has been off duty for sometime now according to reports and has self isolated before being admitted at the UGMC.
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University of Ghana Medical Center currently has 4 patients on admission at the ICU with several others in the main wards of the hospital’s COVID-19 wing.
The Health Minister who announced Ghana’s first COVID-19 case in a night broadcast in March this year would be the first high profile government official to have confirmed positive for the novel Coronavirus.
He is known for urging the public to be cautious of the virus during his regular appearances at the bi-weekly press briefings on COVID-19 by the Information Ministry which has been conspicuously put on hold for a while.
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The information is coming at a time the leader of government business in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah has lamented how MPs, Parliamentary Service staff and journalists who tested positive for the virus have refused to self isolate. Although no names have been mentioned, Mr. Mensah Bonsu’s lamentations suggest more than one person in the House of Legislature has tested positive and this could include MPs.
Credit: Citi News
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