A member of the National Democratic Congress’ COVID-19 technical team, Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah has expressed concern about the fast-rising numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country.
According to her, the government’s claims that the rising cases are due to a rigorous testing regime must be disregarded since the situation only proves that community spread of the virus is increasing across the country.
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Speaking on The Point of View on Monday, Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah said, “we have not curtailed the horizontal transmission, that is why we are getting more positive tests.”
The president, Nana Akufo-Addo in his ninth national address on the country’s fight against COVID-19 indicated that Ghana’s case count would have stood at about 1,300 if the government had not embarked on its enhanced testing drive.
“We must understand that the more people we test for the virus, the more persons we will discover as positive, and, thus, have the opportunity to isolate and treat them. If you do not test people for the virus, you will not find the persons who are positive…Had we not been proactive in undertaking enhanced contact tracing of infected persons, and had relied solely on testing persons who reported to the hospital, which is the practice followed by some other countries, i.e. routine testing, our total case count would have stood at one thousand, four hundred and thirteen (1,413),” Nana Akufo-Addo said.
“The other three thousand, two hundred and thirty-two (3,232), i.e. two-thirds (⅔) of the population of positives, would have been undetected, and still be within the population, unknowingly infecting others,” he added.
source : citinews
