Ahafo Region records first covid-19 case

The Ahafo Regional Health Directorate has confirmed to the media that the region has recorded its maiden COVID-19 case.
Addressing journalists, the Regional Health Director, Dr. Boakye Boateng explained that the victim (name withheld) is an ambulance driver in one of the districts in the region who contracted the virus as a result of conveying a patient to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, capital of Ashanti Region.
According to the Regional Health Director, the victim then travelled to Accra and his sample was taken for a test, which result proved negative. When he returned to Ahafo Region, the Saint Elizabeth Hospital at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South District took his sample again for a second test at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) and he tested positive.
Dr. Boakye Boateng said because the sample was taken in the region and he is also staying there, it means the case is automatically recorded against the Ahafo region.
He disclosed that currently the victim is treated at the Government Hospital Isolation centre at Goaso, capital of Ahafo Region. He added that contact tracing has begun by health professionals to take samples for testing as well.
“There is no cause for alarm because health professionals are in control of the case,” Dr. Boakye Boateng stated and urged Ahafo residents to keep adhering to all the protocols to avoid spreading of the virus in the region.

Ahafo Region is the last region in Ghana to record COVID-19 case, meaning all 16 regions in Ghana now have the cases, with Greater Accra leading the table.

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