Six foreigners who were part of the ten arrested and quarantined in Tamale in the Northern Region have passed their first negative coronavirus test.
According to the Regional Health Directorate, it is waiting for the second test results before the patients can be declared cured.
Facts from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) show eighty-three infected persons have recovered from the novel Coronavirus in Ghana.
Speaking to Citi News, the Deputy Health Director in Charge of Clinical Care, Dr Braimah Baba Abubakari said the samples were taken a week apart, despite the proposed 24-hour expectation, due to the delay in getting the test results.
“We need to have another test again and we are saying that a minimum of 24 hours apart because if I take the sample this morning and then in the evening I take another sample then it means that I am taking it on the same day and so if both are negative I will not be confident enough to say the person has been cured. We need to have at least 24 hours apart so with respect to our people, because of the delay in receiving the results, there have been one week apart between the first sample and the second sample.”
“So the first sample as we mentioned, six of them tested negative and then three remained positive and so the second sample was taken and then sent to Kumasi and so hopefully by the end of this week, we should get the results from them. And when they test negative then we can then say they are cured. And the others who tested positive, if they are to test negative then that will be their first, meaning we will have to conduct another test on them,” he added.
