Coronavirus: 80 Fishermen under Mandatory Quarantine in Central Region
The Ghana Health Service is following up with contact tracing of 550 people to ensure they adhere to self-isolation or quarantine directives
Jonas Danquah 
Eighty fishermen in the Central Region have been put under mandatory quarantine on their return from a fishing expedition in neighbouring African countries.
This was disclosed by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) at a Regional Coordinating Council today [April 14, 2020].
The Central Regional Director of the GHS, Dr Akosua Owusu-Sarpong who made this known said, the Service was following up with contact tracing of 550 people to ensure they adhere to self-isolation or quarantine directives.
She explained that under the circumstance, quarantine and isolation were critical in containing the disease and said such measures were to facilitate public health safety.
Dr Owusu-Sarpong said the Region had since received 273 suspected cases out of which 155 had come out negative with only one confirmed case.
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She added that a confirmed case, who was diagnosed in Accra but a resident of the Region, was also being managed at a health facility in the region.
Responding to agitations from community members against using a facility in their area as isolation centres, the GHS Central Regional Director explained that any facility used for such purposes would be secured such that no person put there would be allowed to mingle with community members.
She appealed to all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives to engage more with the communities to get them to understand and comply with the protocols for their own safety.
