Controversial Ghanaian Actress, Lydia Forson says she was one of the people who thought the Ghanaian media as usual were blowing the effect of the Coronavirus out of proportion.
To her, she did not believe it was a big deal because the media in Ghana could make things look big when in actual sense they are not.The actress made the confession in a tweet sighted by Ghanawish.com
She said “o be honest when #coronavirus started I really wasn’t that worried. I was part of the people who thought the media was blowing it out of proportion(still do a little). I only started to worry when I realized that our health facilities couldn’t handle an influx of patients”.
The sudden spike in case incidence is as a result of the mandatory quarantine and compulsory testing for all travellers entering Ghana, as directed by the president. As of 24 March, total of 1,030 are under mandatory quarantine; 844 have had their samples taken; 510 have had the samples tested; and out these twenty-six (26) tested positive for COVID-19.
Great majority of the confirmed cases are Ghanaians, who returned home from affected countries. Seven (7) are of other nationals namely: Norway, Lebanon, China, France, UK. In respect of contact tracing, a total of 829 contacts have been identified and are being tracked. One (1) of the contacts developed symptoms and has been confirmed positive.
