COVID-19, not drink poison kills Police Officer

A police officer has been confirmed dead after contracting the COVID-19 virus.

This was confirmed in a release signed by the Deputy Bono Regional Police Commander, ACP Baba Saanid Adamu.

The release was to disregard a video circulating on social media that some police officers from the Bono Regional Command have been poisoned through a drink causing the death of the said police inspector.

According to the Regional Police Command, Inspector Alfred Afortey Armah died of COVID-19 and not drink poisoning as many are speculating.

He said the inspector was admitted at the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital but passed away on February 5.

The Bono Regional Deputy Commander for the Police is, therefore, entreating the general public to ignore the circulating poisoned video on social media.

The Bono Deputy Director for Public Health, Dr. John Ekow Otoo says the Sunyani Municipality has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the Region.

He said they have recorded 69 positive cases in the Sunyani Municipality and they have also taken some samples to the lab, awaiting results.

According to him, the region currently has 765 recorded cases with 659 recovers and 98 active cases of which some are being managed from their homes with eight deaths.

He said the Regional Health Directorate (RHD) and other agencies are working together to contain and prevent further spread of the disease.

He said the challenges identified were lapses in contact identification, listing, and tracing of dead COVID-19 patients hence they are putting in much effort by identifying the next of kin of the dead patient who will assist them in the contact tracing.

Dr. Otoo stated that initially, the region was not recording many cases hence they were not having more contact tracers but now that the cases are surging they have activated most of the contact tracing teams.

He, therefore, urged health facilities in the region whose isolation centres are not up to standard to liaise with the assemblies to help them get a standard one.

Meanwhile, the sanitation giant, Zoomlion Ghana Company Limited, has been disinfecting and fumigating various police offices and quarters in the country to help contain the spread of the virus in the police unit.

 

Source: Christian Ofori Kumah/myjoyonline.com