The Korle Bu Police Station registration centre within the Ablekuma South District of the Greater Accra Region identified over 20 individuals looking to sign up for the voter ID card with signs of COVID-19 at the centre.
According to one of the Health Officers based at the registration centre, Rabiatu Braimah, these individuals had high temperatures, were coughing or had a cold.
Everyone at Registration centre has their temperature taken by health officers in an attempt to check out for temperature levels above 37.5 degrees.
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Rabiatu Braimah noted that they recorded figures as high as 39.6 degrees, “which is a little troubling”.
“Not just the temperature, these are people who are giving us symptoms of cough, cold and some are trying to be smart about it, but once you persist, they tell you they have had a cough for about a week,” she explained.
People with high temperatures are set aside from the other persons and re-checked.
“There are people we go back to check and you realize the temperature goes back to normal. Others, it rather keeps escalating,” she recalled.
For persons whose temperature do not drop, they call for “reinforcements” she said, without specifying if they are tested for the virus.
“We don’t really put up any attitude to make them feel discriminated against. We try to explain, and they have been very cooperative.”
