A total of thirty health workers in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality in the Western Region have tested positive to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Municipal Health Director, Caroline Effah Otoo, has told The Chronicle in a telephone interview.
The category of the health workers who tested positive for the virus are not known, considering that the Health Directorate says it would be unprofessional to make that known.
“What is important is that we have isolated the positive health workers, with some in self-isolation and others at isolation centers.”
She would also not give the number of those in isolation centers neither would she reveal to this reporter the location of the centers.
Mrs. Caroline Otoo told this reporter that following the confirmation of the thirty health workers testing positive, contact tracing was activated and over 4,000 people who came in contact with the confirmed health workers had been identified and their samples taken.
150 out of the contact tracing, she said, turned out to be positive.
This is alarming suggested this reporter, but the Municipal Health Directorate thinks otherwise. “It might seem to you as alarming, but it is not alarming to us. This means we are really working.”
To her, the figures were the result of hard work.
She said checks revealed that infections were high in the commercial business centers, and with Tarkwa being a commercial business center, the Directorate was not surprised at the rate of infection.
“It means a lot to us, but we are working and are not alarmed.”
Recently, the Ghana Health Service tagged the Western Region as a hot spot considering the spike in the cases of the COVID-19. The region currently has 421 positive cases.
The 30 health workers in the Tarkwa come in the wake of 45 in the Central Region also testing positive for the virus.
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