The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assured Ghanaians that relatives and compatriots in China are safe as none of them have caught the deadly coronavirus infection.
In a statement released, the Ministry said the Ghana Embassy in China and the Consulate General in Guangzhou, are in contact with the leaderships of the Ghanaian community and the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) in China.
The collaboration, the Ministry notes, has become a channel through which real time updates are received on the development in China, where some 100 people have died in the past two weeks from the deadly virus which is suspected to have emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan.
There are some 152 Ghanaian students in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak but none has been infected, the statement emphasized.
The Ministry says it has therefore advised all Ghanaians in China to stay indoors and adhere to precautionary measures by the Chinese authority.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service says it has deployed a national rapid response team to tackle any eventualities, while detectors of the virus have also been deployed at the country’s entry points.
People traveling into the country are also screened of the virus as part of government’s response regime.
Dr. Badu Sarkodie, Head of Public Health at the GES also reports that the GES is training emergency care people as part of the emergency response regime.