New Variant Of Coronavirus Detected In Ghana – Akufo Addo Discloses
President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that Ghana has detected a new variant of the coronavirus.
Speaking in his 22nd address to the nation on COVID-19, the President said: "Recent genomic sequencing undertaken by our scientists have established that some arriving passengers tested positive for new variants of COVID-19".
He further indicated that "these passengers have all been isolated" and "work is ongoing to determine the presence and extent of spread of the new variants in the general population".
Meanwhile, Ghana's active cases continue to surge with a current record of 1924 and 352 deaths.
According to the President, "detailed investigations of the cases indicate that, apart from arriving passengers at our airport who tested positive, infected persons have recent histories of attending parties, weddings, end of year office programmes, family get-togethers, and funerals. At these gatherings, most of them abandoned the use of the masks, and were engaged in actions that led to them contracting the virus".
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