Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that fourteen (14) people have tested positive out of a total test results of 7,461 persons which represents a percentage of 0.18.
The remaining 7,539 are yet to be received out of the total 15,000 test samples President Akufo-Addo spoke of during his Nationwide address on Sunday.
“The Enhanced tracing exercise, that has started. The President mentioned on Sunday night, as at that time, 19,000 Persons had been traced. Samples have been taken from about 15,000 and he mentioned that his decision by the end of this week will be heavily informed by the results of that 15,000,†Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said Tuesday morning.
He added, “Now, so far, over 15,000 that have their samples taken out of that, the brief I have this morning is that 7,461 have been tested as at now and out of that, 14, that is 0.18% have tested positive,â€