Mr Elliot Edem Agbenorwu, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ketu South has said all six confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Municipality were foreigners aided by residents to enter the country illegally.
The cases, the highest in the Volta Region, which now has nine cases (one in Ho Municipality and two in Hohoe Municipality) brought Ghana’s total confirmed cases to 566, updated on the website of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Sunday, April 12.
In a press release issued Sunday night, Mr Agbenorwu urged the residents not to be alarmed by the numbers but be assured that actions taken to quarantine the "illegal travelers" yielded results.
“I must say that all the cases recorded are people that have been identified as foreigners who came into the country illegally through the Ketu South Municipality and through unapproved routes; They were intercepted by the security personnel and have since been compulsorily quarantined to prevent them from mingling freely with residents of Ketu South.
“Let us all be careful in the discharge of our duties and our businesses. It must be noted that these foreigners were aided by our own brothers and sisters to cross the border,” he added.
The MCE advised residents who came into contact and those who aided the foreigners to enter the country after the border closure directive, to quickly isolate themselves “while we continue to contact trace to identify all those who might have come into contact with them”.
The release also said following the recorded cases, the Municipal Security Council and the Public Health Emergency Management Committee had called for an immediate enforcement of the temporary closure of all markets in the Municipality namely Hedzranawo, Agbozume, Aflao, Wudoaba, Gakli, Aflao Border and Denu Mini markets on market days.
It encouraged markets to be operational on a daily basis while directing beaches and related entertainment activities in the Municipality to be closed to allow for compliance of social distancing protocol to help contain the pandemic.
Source: GNA
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So now we Voltarians know there are some people called foreigners? We use them to rig elections all the time. They gave Fifi Kwetey over 85,000 votes in 2012, and he promised to give President Mahama not less than 100,000 votes. In 2016 they were stopped from coming from Togo to vote and so he got only 45,000. Now the Voltarians know that some people are called foreigners. Wonders will never end. I think it will be very difficult for NDC to win elections in Ghana, now that we know that there are some foreigners who have come into Ghana from Togo.