COVID 19: Contact tracing begins in Western Region
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The Western Regional Department of Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun contact tracing of people who traveled to Ghana from abroad before Ghana’s boarders were closed.
According to a deep throat at the Regional Department of the Health Service, the exercise commenced on Friday 3rd April, 2020. This exercise which was directed by the GHS headquarters in Accra is done via phone calls.
“As everyone who enters Ghana through the airport fills the forms with their details of where they are coming from and where they are going and also add their phone numbers, the GHS phones them and ask them if they have any symptoms of the coronavirus since they arrived” a contact at the Western Regional GHS told www.233times.net how the exercise is done.
There were growing concerns about a pregnant woman who tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in Upper East who had recently traveled to Tarkwa in Western Region. The woman who lives in Bolgatanga with her family is said to have returned to Bolgatanga on board a public transport. This raised the suspicion that she may have infected others en route to the Upper East and the contact tracing was in line with the pregnant woman.
According to the source at the Regional GHS, the contact tracing has nothing to do with the pregnant woman who tested positive for the coronavirus.
“For that woman’s case, we are yet to receive any direction for contact tracing in the Region” the source told www.233times.net.
Ghana’s cases now stands at 205 with five deaths and three recoveries. Forty-nine others have been discharged from isolation centres across the country and currently being managed from home
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