Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boy, has begin out that six new coronavirus instances had been recorded on the Kotoka All-embracing Airport due to the actuality that its reopening.
Speaking on JoyNews’ The Lockdown, he declared that the primary case became recorded on Friday, with others on Saturday and the adverse 3 on Sunday.
According to Dr Oko-Boye, those bodies had appropriate with a poor PCR analysis from their all-embracing locations of origin.
He said that those instances accept been detected due to the $a hundred and fifty Covid-19 analysis authorities insisted on for travelers.
“All our issues in Ghana began out with appealing abundant 4 or 5 instances. So, artlessly affiliation who are speakme about $a hundred and fifty, if we had continued accomplished for a compromised era and bodies with poor PCR exams had slipped in, all we appetite is one admirer who’s superb with a viral load, this is huge, go to us on this affiliated states and we’re lower aback to a lockdown,” he stated.
His acknowledgment became in aegis of measures installed around with the aid of application the authorities advanced of the reopening of the affiliated states’s airport to traffic.
Among altered directives, travelers were tasked to booty a PCR analysis seventy two hours antecedent to traveling the affiliated states and additionally go through a $a hundred and fifty antigen analysis afterwards landing.
Many bodies aloft issues about the fee of the analysis actuality performed on the airport.
However, Dr Boye insists the abundance is fair.
“I consistently say that the alternative, this is accepting one man or woman blooper in with the virus, is so serious, too grave to contemplate. Bethink that we didn’t move in for the artefact and the fee, animated and all excited,” he stated.
He brought that the authorities did now no best additionally charge to arch lower aback to busing travelers to resorts and affection them pay for his or her charcoal for 2 weeks.
This he authentic will fee them affluence greater than the $a hundred and fifty covid-19 check.
“When KLM accustomed on the airport, on September 1, they accept been meant to administer the above-mentioned affiliation which became weeks quarantine.
“All of them had paid for cabin payments about action what, there accept been fifty cartage who presented to pay $a hundred and fifty due to the actuality that they’d poor PCR exams.
“For them, time is aloof too comfortable to absorb weeks in a cabin attractive TV.”
Meanwhile, Ghana’s active Covid-19 instances angle at 801 with a complete case bethink of 44,777.
The affiliated states has additionally recorded 43,693 recoveries and 283 deaths.
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