Coronavirus: Oppong Nkrumah Explains Delay In Akufo-Addo’s Test

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has indicated that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was under a 14-day observation after his recent trip from Norway, hence the delay of his Coronavirus test.

According to him, the president was immediately tested for the virus by his doctors, after the introduction of enhanced testing, which was adopted by the government.

He told Citi News that, “Akufo-Addo wasn’t tested when he came back… a day before his birthday was when the enhance testing programme etc had started…At first, what we were doing was just observation, we were not doing this aggressive testing, as we have started that is how come the president and his close associates, secretariat staff, etc have been tested.”

Dr Patrina Tekyi-Ankrah, the president’s physician told the media in Accra that, the president’s results, as well as his immediate family and members of his secretariat, were negative for coronavirus.

Ghana’s coronavirus case has increased to 204 as of Thursday, April 2, 2020.

Deaths toll remain five across the affected five regions – Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern and Western regions.

Source: GNA

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