President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that Hundreds of factory workers at a fish processing plant in Ghana have recently tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus,
One Worker was responsible for infecting all 533 of them at the factory in the port city of Tema, the president disclosed in his public address to the nation early this week, the CNN reports.
According to Akufo-Addo, the factory infection was discovered from a backlog of 921 samples collected for testing last month that was just reported by health officials.
However, the Ghana President did not disclose further details about the operations or measures to be taken about the situation.
CNN has reached out to Ghana’s health ministry for comment and is awaiting a response.
From this discovery, the mass infection at the plant brings the total number of recorded cases in the West African nation to 4,700, said the president. He also added that since the outbreak was reported in the country in March, 22 people have died of coronavirus-related illnesses.
According to Akudo-Addo, the number of confirmed cases has continued to increase due to improved testing, saying the “more people we test for the virus, the more persons we will discover as positive.”
Ghana is leading the race in the fight against COVID-19 in Africa as it has carried out more than 160,000 tests as well as adding seven more testing centers to speed up response time.
The president, however, has extended the existing ban on public gatherings and directed schools and borders across the country would remain closed.
Last month, the president lifted a three-week lockdown in its key cities, saying its coronavirus testing had improved and also to reduce the effect of the restrictions on the country’s poor.
Meanwhile, men working in low-skilled jobs are dying from coronavirus at a higher rate than those in more highly skilled occupations, new figures from the United Kingdom show.
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