Information available to news hub Citi News has it that Kwaku Agyeman Manu
Ghana’s Minister for Health is recovering in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.
Mr. Manu is said to be receiving treatment at University of Ghana Medical Centre in Accra over the past week.
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Reports says multiple sources in the medical team at the hospital who confirmed the information.
Say he’s “in a stable condition”.
Checks says the minister has taken “a few days off from work” and has not reported to work all week.
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The UGMC currently has 4 patients on admission at the ICU with several others in the main wards of
the hospital’s COVID-19 wing.
The Health Minister who announced Ghana’s first COVID-19 case in a night broadcast in March this
year would be the first high profile government official to have confirmed positive for the novel
Coronavirus.
He is known for urging the public to be cautious of the virus during his regular appearances at the bi-
weekly press briefings on COVID-19 by the Information Ministry which has been conspicuously put on
hold for a while.
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The information is coming at a time the leader of government business in Parliament, Osei Kyei
Mensah has lamented how MPs, Parliamentary Service staff and journalists who tested positive for the
virus have refused to self isolate. Although no names have been mentioned, Mr. Mensah Bonsu’s
lamentations suggest more than one person in the House of Legislature has tested positive and this
could include MPs.
Meanwhile, the Mayor of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly in the Western Region,
Anthony K.K. Sam, has passed away due to an illness close associates have disclosed as COVID-19.
A source at the UGMC in Accra where the MCE died told Citi News his Coronavirus case was
compounded by a failure of the lung.
Source: citinewsroom
