The New Patriotic Party’s campaign supervisor for the 2020 general elections, Peter Mac Manu is in a secure condition as well as responding to treatment.
Mac Manu, who was admitted at the Critical care unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after testing positive for COVID-19 regarding a week ago is now said to be showing positive signs of improved health status.
Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye disclosed this to Accra based Citi FM while supplying an update on the status of some Ministers who are at the various COVID-19 treatment centres across the country.
“I have had WhatsApp chats with the Education Minister, I know Dan Botwe is fine. I spoke to the doctors who are attending to [Peter] Mac Manu, and they tell me he is in high spirits and very stable so let’s wish them well.”
Dr. Okoe Boye likewise disclosed that the substantive Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has also recovered after getting infected with COVID-19 a few weeks ago.
According to him, Agyeman Manu is hale and hearty and also has fully resumed his main tasks.
“Once he has been asymptomatic for two weeks, I don’t want to even go into his test results, but two weeks of being asymptomatic, you have recovered. It’s been two weeks, so the deduction is that he has recovered. So the Health Minister is back to work. On Friday, he was at the Ga East Hospital to inspect the projects that are going on with the treatment centres. He started work before this interview, so I guess he will be at work,” he indicated.
Ghanaian politicians and Coronavirus
Currently, President Akufo-Addo is on a 14-day self-isolation after getting exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
A number of government appointees have also tested positive for COVID-19 within the last few weeks.
Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has also tested positive for the virus. His status was announced by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
A Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah who also tested positive for the virus resigned because he visited a voter registration centre, contrary to advice by his doctor to self-isolate.
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