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This year, 71 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the eastern municipality of New Juaben South.
This brings the number of COVID-19 cases in the municipality to 484 with 18 deaths.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Koforidua, Municipal Health Director Dr. Edmund Ekow Kaitoo said that the new cases covered the first 26 days of January.
Quarantined patients at home
Dr. Kaitoo said that because there was no isolation center in the municipality, patients had been advised to self-quarantine at home, where they were receiving treatment.
According to him, members of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) COVID-19 Municipal Emergency Response Team had been visiting patients at home to offer them the necessary support.
Dr. Kaitoo, who indicated that the team had begun to trace contacts for all those who in one way or another could have interacted with patients, said that the municipality suspected a second wave of the pandemic like other countries such as the Kingdom. Kingdom, Brazil and other countries. South Africa.
Comply with security protocols.
The municipal health director, therefore, advised locals to strictly adhere to COVID-19 safety protocols and other precautionary measures.
“If we are going to do mass testing, the number will go up because about 80 percent of the people you meet on the streets and in markets do not wear face masks and do not practice social distancing,” said Dr. Kaitoo.
“COVID-19 is real, so do not minimize it, take security protocols very seriously to protect yourself from infections,” he urged residents of the area.
Source: Graphiconline.com
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