COVID-19 cases spike at KIA under control - Health Minister

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has assured the public of the deployment of enhanced measures to curb the spike in COVID-19 cases at Ghana’s airport .

He said authorities are aware of the situation and putting things in place to prevent further escalation.

This comes on the back of a statement released by Frontier Healthcare Services alerting the country’s health officials of a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases recorded at the airport.

The company in a letter signed by the Managing Director, Dr. Kudzo Seneadza, revealed that between April 21 and 24, 2021, an "unprecedented" 120 positive cases were recorded from arrivals.

But speaking to the media, Kwaku Agyeman Manu said the measures put in place by the government will help arrest the spike in COVID-19 numbers.

“We are aware, so we have put in place extra measures. We have issued travel advisories to some passengers to be quarantined. We are working on that but over the weekend, the numbers started reducing drastically. I think on Sunday, there was no case at all. So I think things are under control.”