President Akufo-Addo has tested negative for the Coronavirus disease as Ghana hit 195 cases of the novel coronavirus.
According to the President Akufo-Addo personal physician, Dr Patrina Takyi-Ankrah, he was tested for the disease a day before his birthday, March 28.
In a presser on Wednesday, April 1, Dr Takyi-Ankrah said the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo also tested negative for the disease.
“On the day before the president’s birthday, we tested him and the first lady and his daughters and all the staff of this household and I am happy to announce that all the tests came back negative,” she said.
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Dr. Takyi Ankrah also said close family relations of the President Akufo-Addo have also tested negative for the disease.
At the same presser, the Minister of Health at a press briefing said 34 new cases were recorded on Tuesday.
In total, 174 of the cases have been recorded in the Greater Accra Region, 10 cases in the Northern Region, nine in the Ashanti Region and one in the Upper West and Eastern Regions respectively.
The Minister of health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, addressing a press briefing in Accra, said three patients recorded from the general surveillance have fully recovered and have therefore been discharged from the treatment facilities.
He further noted that 80 people out of the same 160 recorded in the general surveillance are responding to treatment while 18 have been discharged to be managed at home.
