Accra and Tema in the Greater Accra Region, and Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have been identified by the Ministry of Health (MoH) as the epicenters of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ghana.

The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu who disclosed this, said the Ministry has deployed trained personnel to these perceived hotspots to trace persons that have come into contact with confirmed cases. 

"We are doing what we describe as contact tracing, in Accra we have deployed 98 field officers ...that have been trained doing the tracing and we are getting to people."

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The Minister said in Kumasi for instance, about 50 trained people have been employed who are still doing contact tracing. 

He, therefore, advised that based on the evidence, "wherever we are, all those our brothers and sisters who have come in, we should advise them to put themselves in self-quarantine if we haven't tracked them yet”.

"And they should also talk to health authorities in the area where they live, to send teams to serve them, they can be calling on telephone describing their conditions to health officers they get in touch with such that, we can protect the rest of the population against community spread, the horizontal spread we are seeing in our country at the moment," the Minister said.