Coronavirus: Allow our contact tracing team access to you - Health Minister to Ghanaians

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has advised Ghanaians to allow the contact tracing team gain access to them in order to mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus.

According to him, the contact tracing exercise is one of the surest ways for the nation to flatten the curve of the spread of the global pandemic in the country.

During a briefing at the Information Ministry on May 5, 2020, he recounted an incident where contact tracing personnel were turned away by some residents at Bukom, JamesTown.

“Last four days or so, the Director-General told me that some of our young people doing contact tracing had been sacked when they went to some place in James Town or Bukom. Please they are coming in our interest. So, if you sack them and there is one of them amongst you there, there will be a problem.”

He emphasized the seriousness of COVID-19 pleading with Ghanaians to comply with contact tracers when they reach out to them.

“…They will call you nicely on telephone or they will come to your home. Please give space. They might have picked somebody who is positive and the person might have told them over the last three days this man, has visited this house, has visited here…

“And when they get your contact, they will come to you to find out how you are doing and they will take your samples that you have been contracted with the disease.”

The Minister added, “So allow them, to come to your home for your own protection.”

Meanwhile, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced that Ghana's Coronavirus case count has risen to 2,719 with 294 recoveries and a death toll of 18 as at Monday, May 5, 2020.

The update meant that Ghana has recorded 550 additional cases of COVID-19 just two days after at the previous update which stood at 2169 as at May 2, 2020.