Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, the Presidential Advisor on Health has revealed that Ghana’s official test figure of 68,591 contains duplicates. He revealed this in an interview on Joy Fm. he explained that some individuals had several tests carried out on them to prove they were really cured of the virus, thus contributing to the high number of recorded tests.
According to him, it includes duplicate tests because, when somebody is tested and is isolated and being treated, after 14 days you do a second test, the person can be positive. If he’s positive, he’s still counted as a test. So you don’t count the individual, you count the number of tests. This means that the number of patients will definitely be less than the number of tests.
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Some Ghanaians have cast doubts on the integrity of figures being paraded by the government as official test figures. In a programme on Citi Tv, renowned Ghanaian pathologist and politician, Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosa questioned government’s figures citing the capacity of Noguchi and Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Ghana’s only testing centres.
But Dr Nsiah Asare insists that government is in the process of building more testing facilities across the country to speed up testing and to reduce the backlog of about 18,000 samples.
Dr Nsiah Asare gave an assurance that the government is doing all it can to ensure that Ghana increases its test capacity in order to ensure that the disease is detected early to prevent more horizontal spread.
Source: GhanaCelebrities.Com
This post was published on April 22, 2020 8:28 AM
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