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The death of a police officer was confirmed after contracting the Covid-19 virus.
This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Deputy Commander of the Bono Regional Police, ACP Baba Saanid Adamu.
The release was to ignore a video that circulates on social networks that some police officers from the Bono Regional Command have been poisoned with a drink causing the death of the aforementioned police inspector.
According to the Regional Police Command, Inspector Alfred Afortey Armah died of Covid-19 and did not drink poisoning as many speculate.
He said the inspector was admitted to Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital but passed away on February 5.
Therefore, the regional deputy commander of the Bono Police is asking the general public to ignore the poisoned video circulating on social media.
Bono’s deputy director of public health, Dr. John Ekow Otoo, says that the municipality of Sunyani has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the region.
He said they have registered 69 positive cases in Sunyani municipality and have also taken some samples to the laboratory, awaiting results.
According to him, the region currently has 765 registered cases with 659 recovered and 98 active cases of which some are being handled from their homes with eight deaths.
He said the Regional Health Directorate (RHD) and other agencies are working together to contain and prevent further spread of the disease.
He said that the challenges identified were failures in contact identification, listing and tracking of dead patients with Covid-19, therefore they are making a great effort to identify the relatives of the dead patient who will help them in tracking contacts.
Dr. Otoo stated that initially, the region did not register many cases, so they did not have more contact trackers, but now that the cases are increasing, they have activated most of the contact tracing teams.
Therefore, he urged health facilities in the region whose isolation centers do not meet standards to contact assemblies to help them obtain a standard one.
Meanwhile, the sanitation giant, Zoomlion Ghana Company Limited, has been disinfecting and fumigating various police offices and neighborhoods across the country to help contain the spread of the virus in the police unit.
