The Ministry of Health has confirmed that 14 per cent of the 1,030 travellers to Ghana forced into mandatory quarantine are Covid-19 positive.
Already, blood samples of 600 of those in quarantine have been collected, about 200 of them have been tested and 14 per cent of those tested have turned up to contain the dreaded Coronavirus.
This means that out of the 1,030 currently under quarantine, about 145 of them could be Covid-19 positive and could have mingled with the general public if they had not been forced into quarantine on Sunday as soon as they touched down at the Kotoka International Airport. (KIA).
Outside those currently in quarantine, Ghana already has a total official figure of 27 cases. The sum of both will put Ghana as the highest officially recorded Covid-19 cases currently.
According to the Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at today’s press briefing, the gloomy figures can be extrapolated onto the general situation of Covid-19 situation currently in the country.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health had warned that there may be as much as 600 people unknowingly walking around with the virus.
Whatsup News picked information from the Noguchi Memorial Medical Research Centre that top officials are aware that Ghana may already have as much as 500 infections that may have been kept under wraps to prevent mass panic.
Ghana first recorded two cases last weekend and in just one week, the numbers have jumped to almost 170 currently, including those in quarantine. Experts warn that unless Ghana is serious about containment, the trajectory of infection is rivalling that of Italy which has shot up from 500 cases in February to over 60,000 currently.