Covid-19 Contact Tracing Team Announces It Will Rump Up Surveillance

The team put together by government to trace people who have been exposed to infected persons with Covid-19 has announced that it will enhance surveillance during the lockdown period.

Dr. C. Malm, head of the team, today told journalists in Accra that when the country goes into the  two week lockdown starting on Monday, the team will identify households with recorded cases of the infections and put them under serious observations.

Also households in communities identified as hot spots will receive scrutineer attention.

These households will be zoned out and visited members of the team who will take data from occupants, screen them for Covid-19 symptoms and then eventually test them.

Where infected persons are found, they will then be put under the care of case managers.

Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern and Upper West regions are known to have become hotspot regions for Ghana’s Coronavirus infections.

The idea is to change the formula in which people are only given attention after they start showing symptoms, and move on, during the lockdown period, to test people even before they start showing symptoms.

Dr. Nsiah Asare, Advisor to the President on Health said the proactive formula has been adopted because  countries who have succeeded in getting a hand on the virus –

South Korea, Singapore and Japan – used it.