[JUST IN]: Government to set up 15 Coronavirus testing centres

Presidential Adviser on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, has announced that the Government is working towards having at least 15 centres across the country to test everyone who has come into contact with a COVID-19 patient. As of now, Ghana has 27 confirmed cases with 2 death and over 590 contact tracing still ongoing.

The centres would have a combined capacity of testing 200,000 samples. At present, tests are conducted at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in the Greater Accra Region and the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in the Ashanti Region

Addressing a sensitisation programme on COVID-19 for senior journalists, in Accra, under the auspices of the Ghana Journalists Association, Dr Nsiah Asare said some ACR machines in some of the health facilities would be calibrated for testing the virus.

He, therefore, urged the media to encourage anyone who had come into contact with a patient to make himself/herself available for voluntary testing.