A 46-year-old Nigerian national man who tested positive for Coronavirus in the Upper West Region has bolted.
Simon Okafor Chukudi was kept under surveillance at his residence by officials of the Ghana Health Service awaiting the outcome of his test results for COVID-19 which came out positive last Monday.
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Osei Kuffuor Afreh, said after breaking the news about Okafor’s status to him the same day, health officials followed up to his residence at Wapaani, a suburb of Wa to transport him to the isolation centre at the Upper West Regional Hospital but he was nowhere to be found.
“He was among the six new cases we recorded recently. Unfortunately for us, when we went to send him to the isolation centre, he could not be traced,” Dr. Afreh said in an interview on Accra-based radio station, Citi FM.
He therefore appealed to the public, especially residents of Wa, to help trace the whereabouts of Mr. Okafor.
Meanwhile, the Regional Police Commander, DCOP Francis Aboagye Nyarko, said a search party has already been dispatched to hunt for him.
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