{"id":2527,"date":"2020-04-06T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/nu\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:35:13","slug":"coronavirus-govt-denies-compulsory-mass-testing-affirms-enhanced-testing-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/coronavirus-govt-denies-compulsory-mass-testing-affirms-enhanced-testing-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Govt denies compulsory mass testing, affirms enhanced testing measure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/ | 1 April 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

The Government of Ghana has come out to clarify what it describes as a misinterpretation of its enhanced testing measure in the COVId-19 fight to be a mass and compulsory testing exercise.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Ministers Press Briefing this morning, the Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said what government intends to do with the enhanced testing exercise is to ramp-up its measures by testing all contacts of confirmed cases, persons who have arrived in Ghana from foreign countries within a certain period and persons in hotspot areas who may be picked out by officials through surveillance.<\/p>\n

He indicated that contrary to assertions that there is going to be a compulsory mass testing in some jurisdictions, officials are rather going to conduct surveillance in hotspot neighbourhoods through which people deemed potentially to be infected will be tested.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly in a release indicated that there was going to be among other things a compulsory house to house testing of every individual residing in the municipality.<\/p>\n

The minister reacting to this in his address indicated that such a measure will not be logistically prudent.<\/p>\n

Prior to today\u2019s briefing, Ghana\u2019s case count of COVID-19 stood at 161, but the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu revealed that the number has risen to 195 with death figures still at 5 and full recoveries at 3. He also indicated that a good number of the cases are coming up to full recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/ | 1 April 2020 The Government of Ghana has come out to clarify what it describes as a misinterpretation of its enhanced testing measure in the COVId-19 fight to be a mass and compulsory testing exercise. Speaking at the Ministers Press Briefing this morning, the Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codvid19"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t