Citi News sources have confirmed that one of the two persons have who contracted the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, is a senior official of the Norwegian Embassy in Ghana.
The other person is a Ghanaian working in Turkey who returned into the country.
At an emergency press conference on Thursday night by the Ministry of Information, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, did not disclose the nationalities of the two patients, except to say the cases were imported into the country.
He also did not say when or how the two foreign nationals entered the country and whether they went through the necessary checks and screening or not.
According to the Health Minister, “the two patients are stable and have been kept in isolation.”
The Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, also revealed that the Ministry of Health and other relevant state agencies have begun tracing individuals the two patients have gotten in contact with.
“Both individuals returned to Ghana from Norway and Turkey. So these are imported cases of COVID-19.”
“The patients are currently being kept in isolation and are stable. We have initiated processes for contact tracing.” the statement added.
But speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Friday, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah confirmed their nationalities but did not give further details about their identity, except to say that the contact tracing was ongoing to prevent further spread.
