Fear has gripped residents of Dakpam in the Nanumba North Municipality of the Northern Region following the decision by the Assembly to return a patient who tested positive for COVID-19 to the community.
The residents are worried that more people in the community will be infected if the said person is not quarantined immediately.
According to them, the affected person who was taken to Bmbilla to be treated has been brought back to the community less than a week later.
They have threatened to leave the community if he and his immediate contacts are not quarantined.
He was picked on Sunday morning and sent to Bimbilla to be quarantined. To our surprise, he has been brought back yesterday morning and we don’t understand,” one resident said to Citi News.
Meanwhile, the MCE for Nanumba North, Abdulai Yaqoub has maintained that the decision was taken based on advice from the Regional Director of Health. Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have increased to 1,671.
The number of recovered persons has also gone up to 188. Five new deaths have been recorded from the disease raising the death toll to 16.
Source: Fiilafmonline/CitiNews
