COVID-19: ‘We've initiated processes for contact tracing’ – Health Minister

The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has announced processes to trace persons who might have come in contact with the two victims of coronavirus in Ghana.

The two persons who returned to Ghana from Norway and Turkey tested positive to coronavirus after laboratory results from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research.

The Minister, however, stated that the Patients have been kept in isolation and in stable condition.

“Both patients are currently being kept in isolation and are stable. We have initiated processes for contact tracing,” he said.

Mr Agyemang-Manu assured "Ghanaians that the Government of Ghana together with all Health Partners will continue to work assiduously to ensure the situation is contained.”

Ghana confirmed two cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday.