Government has revealed that a number of hotels are being used as quarantine centres in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in Ghana
The centres are where people are put for observation, Information Minister explained on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 in Accra during a press briefing on Ghana’s update on COVID-19.
“You need proper cubicled places so that in terms of interaction with other persons and bodily fluids, etc., these persons are properly cubicled and have access to single unit sanitary conditions on their own.”
“For that purpose, what is ready available to use for these a 1,030 persons were a number hotels. The State has commandeered a number of hotels and is using for this purposes,” Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said.
“These hotels are not accessible to the public,” he noted, adding that, “military and police persons are there.”
He urged Ghanaians to let the health workers and experts handle the situation.
“We particularly speak to family members because while these persons can communicate with you and tell you where they are, we don’t encourage you to go there and seek to interact with them or give them food.”
“It’s not in your own interest even so to do because even as at this morning, you’re seeing the kind of result that is coming from the testing,” he added.
Ghana confirmed 25 new cases of coronavirus bringing the number of cases confirmed in the country to 52, with two deaths recorded.
