COVID-19: 43 primary contacts tested in Tema are negative
The Tema Health Directorate has confirmed that 43 people who are part of the state-sponsored contact tracing were declared negative after COVID-19 tests were run on them. Speaking at a press briefing organized by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), Dr. Sally Quartey, Tema Metropolitan Director of Ghana Health Service, said 46 persons were named as…
The Tema Health Directorate has confirmed that 43 people who are part of the state-sponsored contact tracing were declared negative after COVID-19 tests were run on them.
Speaking at a press briefing organized by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), Dr. Sally Quartey, Tema Metropolitan Director of Ghana Health Service, said 46 persons were named as contacts out of which 43 had been successfully traced, and tested negative, adding that the remaining three were 1being traced.
Dr. Quartey indicated that three persons were tested positive in Tema explaining however that under the protocols if a person tested positive outside his or her district of residence, they were counted under their district and not the district that the sample was collected at.
In that light, she said out of the three, one did not belong to the Tema Metropolis, thus the area official had two positive cases out of which one had fully recovered and one was responding to treatment, noting that Tema General Hospital which was one of the national treatment centers, was holding some patients accordingly.
She said contact tracing was not a one-off thing, therefore, the Metropolis’ eight contact tracing teams were still working to locate the remaining three and any other contact that might be mentioned, adding that the tracing used to be centralized until last week when the districts were tasked to do it.
