A total of eight regions out of the sixteen have confirmed cases of Coronavirus with the North East Region becoming the latest to confirm a case.
The case was confirmed in Walewale following the ongoing enhanced surveillance and contact-tracing exercise.
The victim who is reported to be a 19-year-old asthmatic patient has however lost his life.
The Municipal Chief Executive of West Mamprusi Municipality, Arimeyaw Somo Lucky in an interview with Citi News monitored by ABC News said “We had a suspected case that was sent to Kumasi five days ago. The person was already an asthmatic patient for the past five years, when he reported to the hospital, they saw some of the symptoms of COVID-19 and then he was isolated,”
”Unfortunately, he passed on two hours later after his admission. The test was sent to Kumasi, it delayed but the result came back last night. I was briefed this morning by the Regional Health Director that the result was positive.”
He noted that the family of the deceased have been quarantined as efforts are being done to quarantine the other contacts who will be traced.
“We invited the family and we have now started the contact tracing and possible quarantine of all those who are involved. That is what we are doing now,” he said.
Source: ABCNewsgh
