I followed every Safety Protocol, yet Contracted COVID-19 – Dan Botwe Narrates Experience

The Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development, Dan Kwaku Botwe has recounted his experience, having contracted the COVID-19 disease some weeks ago.

The Minister who has now “clinically recovered”, said he had taken all the COVID-19 precautions yet, he still contracted the virulent disease.

According to Dan Botwe, he even went to the extent of even spraying files and papers that came to his office with alcohol-based disinfectants.

The Member of Parliament for Okere constituency narrating his ordeal to Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo, said he was admitted at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) with pneumonia-like symptoms and subsequently tested positive for the virus.

"I didn't suspect it was COVID...when I was going to UGMC I didn't know I had COVID. To the best of my knowledge I followed all the COVID protocols but the fact that it could happen, we should continue to be extra careful...the precautions we took and this happened; it's surprising," he intimated.

He has, therefore, urged Ghanaians to cease harbouring with the misconception that the virus is only for 'high-profile people'.

"...if I have been infected after all the precautions I took; we cannot be careful enough. The virus is not for high profile people and we need to get rid of such misconceptions," he urged.

Watch full interview below