Fugitive Guinean national who had tested positive for Covid-19 arrested in Accra

The Guinean national who tested positive for COVID-19, but escaped from a quarantine facility in Tamale in the Northern Region has been arrested in the national in Accra.

The Deputy Health Minister, Alexander Abban, who disclosed  this on Accra-based Citi FM said  while the patient was spotted and arrested before Saturday morning, it was surprising how she was able to bypass the security barriers in the locked-down areas in the Ashanti Region and ended up in Accra.

“I’m just wondering how this person got to Accra because she was actually spotted and arrested. That is the shocking bit. How did she cross Kumasi? The person has been arrested. Yesterday when I was at Korle-Bu, I chanced on that information,” he said.

Last week, the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed , disclosed to the media that a female Guinea national who was among the ten Guinean nationals that  entered Ghana illegally and tested positive for Covid-19, had escaped from  a quarantine facility Tamale .

Salifu Saeed indicated that the fugitive patient “scaled the wall [ of the facility]” leaving behind her belongings.

He described the development as a very disturbing situation because she is positive with the novel coronavirus.

By Richard Owusu-Akyaw / www.thechronicle.com.gh

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