Some 41 Ghanaians have arrived in Ghana from the United States of America as part of the government’s arrangement to evacuate stranded citizens from foreign land amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The development comes on the back of an announcement by Foreign Affairs Ministry June 4 that it was facilitating some chartered flights to carry Ghanaians back home despite the closure of the country’s international borders.
The citizens who were transported from Washington DC are mostly students USA-sponsored exchange programme.
The evacuees entered the country’s airspace on a South African Airways flight Saturday morning the Kotoko International Airport.
They are undergoing a two-week observation following during which they will be mandatorily quarantined at a hotel in the capital.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says some of the over 200 Ghanaians who returned from Kuwait have tested positive for coronavirus.
Director of Public Health at the Service, Dr Badu Sakordie during a press briefing on Thursday said he has been informed that some of the returnees have tested positive but will wait for official confirmation of the exact number.
Prior to this, tests conducted on the returnees by Kuwaiti health officials were negative.
Source:Fiilafmonline/JoyNews
