A compulsory house to house Coronavirus tracing and testing exercise is set to be carried out in the Ayawaso West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region from Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
The compulsory test will be conducted for 10 days to tackle the spread of COVID-19 among residents in the declared COVID-19 hotspot.
“A directive from the National Level has been given to conduct a COVID-19 contact tracing of all persons who have come into contact with COVID-19 positive patients…and conduct compulsory house to house testing of every individual residing in Ayawaso West Municipal Municipality”, the statement from health authorities indicated.
Over a hundred health and security officers from the police, immigration and national security are expected to be deployed for the exercise in the municipality.
The Ayawaso West Municipal which has been declared COVID-19 hotspot includes areas such as Legon, Dzorwulu, East Legon, West Legon, Okponglo, Abelenkpe, Roman Ridge, Airport Residential and surrounding communities.
Meanwhile, Ghana has recorded nine new novel coronavirus cases.
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All the nine cases were reported in Accra, according to the Ghana Health Service.
“Three of them travelled to Ghana within the past 14 days from Germany, France and Hungary respectively but for six of them, there is no history of travel outside,” the service indicated.
According to the latest update, the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research also reported on tests from 77 samples including samples from 41 asymptomatic contacts of a case from Tamale Teaching Hospital “and all are negative for COVID-19”.
The Ayawaso West Municipal houses the University of Ghana where a student tested positive for COVID-19 before the closure of the institution.
However, some 94 students and staff of the University of Ghana who came into contact with the student have all tested negative after a 14-day isolation period.
