Ghana Health Service Holds Crunch Meeting On Corona Virus In Accra

The Ghana Health Service has today held an emergency meeting to review Ghana’s state of preparedness and emergency response system in the event of an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in the country.

The meeting which came off in the national capital Accra had regional directors of health across the country attending.

As at the time of going to press the meeting behind closed doors was ongoing and was rumoured to be focusing on how Ghana can tighten security at all of its land borders.

Apparently, the emergency review meeting was informed by a confirmation of first infection by Ghana’s immediate neighbour to the North, Burkina Faso.

Health authorities in the former French colony announced that a couple have tested positive for the deadly virus which is also known as the Covid-19 virus.

The wife in the couple, who is suspected to have been the source of the infection is said to have recently returned from France. They have since been quarantined.

A third person, who was in close contact with the couple has also been quarantined.

Burkina Faso now adds to the growing list of African countries which have caught the disease. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, South Africa and Cameroon, Togo and Morocco have all confirmed infections.

In fact, today, Morocco confirmed its first death from the infection. An 89-year-old woman who suffered from chronic health problems died from complications from the virus.

The woman, a Moroccan citizen who had been living in Italy, “suffered from chronic illnesses affecting the respiratory and cardiovascular system”, the ministry said in a statement.

She returned to Morocco in late February, before testing positive for the virus and being transferred under medical supervision to a hospital in Casablanca, according to the statement.