COVID-19: Some Ghanaian Kuwaiti returnees test positive
Some of the Ghanaians who returned from Kuwait at the weekend have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Badu Sarkodie has revealed.
At a press briefing on the disease Thursday morning [May 28, 2020], Dr Badu Sarkodie did not give out the number of people who have tested positive.
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"The people that came from Kuwait, we are following up, they have finished with the tests of all the people that they took samples. There are indications that some of them are positive, we will follow up this and when we have the full report, we will share these reports appropriately," Dr Sarkodie said.
All the 241 Ghanaians deported from Kuwait last Saturday by the Kuwaiti Government for residing in that country illegally have been placed under a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Reports are that before the repatriated persons left Kuwait, they were taken through a Covid-19 infection test and the results were negative.
They arrived in Accra on Saturday, May 23, 2020, via a chartered flight made available by the Kuwaiti Government.
It is from the confirmatory test in Ghana on their actual status where some have tested positive.
Repatriation
The deportees arrived on board a special chartered Kuwait Airways flight which had 284 passengers made up of 241 Ghanaians and 43 Togolese nationals who were on an onward journey to Togo.
They were received at the Kotoko International Airport by the Operation Return Home joint task force which comprises the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ghana Police Service (GPS) the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and other stakeholders.
Though the borders of Ghana remain closed as part of measures to curb the importation and spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), this chartered flight was allowed into the country with permission from the government.
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