A 46-year-old Nigerian man by name Simon Okafor Chukudi has been arrested after he escaped surveillance by the Upper West Regional Covid-19 Team.
It emerged a few days ago that Simon who had tested positive for COVID-19 was nowhere to be found. Police and the Upper West COVID-19 surveillance team subsequently launched a vigorous manhunt for the Nigerian.
The Upper West Regional Police Commander, DCOP Francis Aboagye Nyarko confirming the arrest, revealed that the patient was arrested in a compound house near the Wa Polytechnic. He has since been handed over to the COVID-19 team led by the regional minister, Hon. Dr Hafiz Bin Salih. The Seven people whom he came into contact with have been picked up and placed under quarantine at the Upper West Regional Hospital.
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The Nigerian national was kept under surveillance at his residence by officials of the Ghana Health Service awaiting the outcome of his test results for COVID-19 which came out positive last Monday.
He was however nowhere to be found when health officials followed up to his residence at Wapaani, a suburb of Wa to transport him to the isolation centre at the Upper West Regional Hospital.
Source: GhanaCelebrities.Com