A Senior Lecturer at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ghana, Dr Richard Suu-Ire, has underscored the need for animals in the country to be sampled and tested for COVID-19 in order to ascertain whether they have the disease or not.
Such a move, he explained, would help the country to know which particular animals had the virus to enable it put in place the necessary measures to prevent such animals from infecting human beings.
He said currently, Ghana and other countries in Africa were not doing any animal testing or surveillance for COVID-19, pointing out that it was not the best since “it was expected to look for the disease in animals, take their samples and test for them.”