Health Authorities have identified Ayawaso West Municipality in Accra as a hotspot for the covid -19 pandemic in Ghana.
Following this, beginning today Wednesday April, 01, a compulsory house to house contact tracing and coronavirus testing is to be done for residents, a statement by the municipal health authorities said.
“A directive from the National Level has been given to conduct a COVID-19 contact tracing of all persons who have come into contact with COVID-19 positive patients…and conduct compulsory house to house testing of every individual residing in Ayawaso West Municipal Municipality”.
Ghana as at March, 31, 2020 recorded nine new cases.
All nine (9) were reported from Accra, three (3) of them travelled to Ghana within the past 14 days from Germany, France and Hungary respectively, but for six (6) of them there is no history of travel outside.
