Intensive Care Unit staff of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi have been asked to self-isolate after coming into contact with a COVID-19 patient.
“Most of our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Doctors and Nurses got exposed to Polytrauma patient on admission in the ICU who tested positive for COVID-19. The risk assess puts most of them at high-risk exposure and have self-quarantined for 14 days,” the hospital said in a statement.
Meanwhile, four more people have succumbed to the coronavirus disease with Ghana’s death toll now 58, according to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye.
At Tuesday’s briefing, Dr Kuma-Aboagye also revealed that Ghana’s total case count is now 12, 193 with 4,326 recoveries.
Dr Kuma-Aboagye has also dismissed suggestions that the government is manipulating COVID-19 death numbers.
According to him, there is a process that people who die from the virus go through before they are finally reported to the general public.
His response comes after Pressure Group, OccupyGhana, alleged that the government is manipulating Ghana’s death numbers from the COVID-19.
In a statement, Occupy Ghana wondered why less than 20 out of the 38 people who have died in the Ashanti region alone from COVID-19 have been added to the national tally.
Ghana has officially reported 54 deaths from the COVID-19 so far with case count hitting 11,964.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM