{"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":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/\">Source: https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/ | 1 April 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>The minister reacting to this in his address indicated that such a measure will not be logistically prudent.<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>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":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codvid19"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}