General News of Tuesday, 21 July 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comIt is completely wrong, unethical to focus on only active coronavirus cases - Biostatisticianplay videoLecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, Dr Justice Moses K. AhetoA Biostatistician and lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, has called the bluff of government’s decision to only focus efforts on active cases instead of the cumulative coronavirus numbers. But in a rather swift reaction, government moved to add ‘discharges’ to the recoveries pane on the daily updates website. Now in a latest development, during the Minister’s press briefing on Sunday, July 19, 2020, concerned stakeholders have been asked to focus all attention on reducing the active cases to zero instead of the number of the discharges and others. But sharing a sharply opposing view in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb, Dr Aheto concluded that it is absolutely wrong and unprofessional on the side of government to strictly concentrate on reducing only active cases to zero. He said, “you don’t consciously limit the speed at which you’re doing the contact tracing and surveillance then turn around to come and tell us that we should focus on only the active cases because it looks like now, we’re going down.

Source: GhanaWeb July 21, 2020 13:07 UTC