The Bono East region’s COVID-19 case count has seen a sharp rise from one to six cases as of yesterday (June 1, 2020).
According to the Bono East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Fred Adomako Boateng who disclosed this in an interview with GBC’s Radio Ghana, the five additional cases is as a result of targeted testing the health directorate has been conducting.
He said contact tracing is ongoing and by the close of today (June 2, 2020) they would be able to come out with realistic measures to stop the spread.
The Bono East Region on Thursday the 28th of May 2020 recorded its first case of COVID-19 through a Commercial driver who plies the Atebubu-Kumasi route.
In an interview with GBC’s Radio Ghana on the aftermath of the recording of the first case in the region, the Bono East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Fred Adomako Boateng said, additional five cases have been recorded since yesterday, thanks to targeted testing on the 31st May 2020 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the region to six with the Techiman Municipality recording five out of the six.
He said, contact tracing is ongoing to get in touch with those who came into contact with the infected persons.
He also said the infected persons are currently in isolation.
Dr. Fred Adomako Boateng bemoaned the stigmatization the first case is suffering and called on Ghanaians to stop stigmatizing COVID-19 victims.
STORY: DANIEL DONKOR
