General News of Thursday, 21 May 2020Source: GNACoronavirus: 30 health workers test positive in AshantiFile photoThirty health workers in the Ashanti Region have so far tested positive for COVID-19 in their line of duty, Dr. Emmanuel Tinkorang, the Regional Director of Health Services, has disclosed. The affected workers, comprised of various categories of frontline workers managing the pandemic in the region, according to the Director, were all in stable conditions and responding to treatment. Dr. Tinkorang who was giving a regional update on COVID-19 at a media briefing said the situation would not, in any way, affect the unwavering resolve of health workers in the region to contain the disease. “We had to embark on enhancing surveillance in the area and that explains why most of the samples taken proved positive”, he stated. Dr. Tinkorang said the rate of infection had since gone down, saying that, his outfit had intensified surveillance and also deployed more health workers to the area.

Source: GhanaWeb May 21, 2020 01:07 UTC