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Three persons in police custody in Walewale in the North East Region have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The three were in a group of 10 who were being prepared for transfer to the Tamale prisons when a pre-departure COVID-19 test was conducted on them and the result confirmed the three as positive cases.
They have since been quarantined in new police cells.
The North East Regional Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Reuben Dugah who confirmed this to
Graphic Online said the inmates were responding to treatment at the isolation center.
The West Mamprusi Municipal COVID 19 team has since commenced contact tracing of persons and officers who have had contacts with the said inmates for their samples to be taken for testing.
They have since been quarantined in new police cells. The North East Regional Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Reuben Dugah who confirmed this to Accra based Daily Graphic said the inmates were responding to treatment at the isolation centre. The West Mamprusi Municipal COVID 19 team has since commenced contact tracing of persons and officers who have had contacts with the said inmates for their samples to be taken for testing. He explained that the Walewale Health Directorate COVID-19 team last week took samples of ten inmates in the cell for testing for COVID-19 upon request and the results came out that three of them were positive for COVID-19.
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Three persons in police custody in Walewale in the North East Region have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The three were in a group of 10 who were being prepared for transfer to the Tamale prisons when a pre-departure COVID-19 test was conducted on them and the result confirmed the three as positive cases.
They have since been quarantined in new police cells.
The North East Regional Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Reuben Dugah who confirmed this to
Graphic Online said the inmates were responding to treatment at the isolation center.
The West Mamprusi Municipal COVID 19 team has since commenced contact tracing of persons and officers who have had contacts with the said inmates for their samples to be taken for testing.