Compulsory House to House COVID-19 Testing in Ayawaso West to begin

Compulsory COVID-19 testing for all residents at Ayawaso West Wuogon in the Greater Accra region is the latest information coming in.

Your authentic and authoritative news hub, newsghana24 has sighted a press release indicating that Ayawaso West Wuogon has been identified as a hot spot where most of the COVID-19 cases are being reported.

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Apart from organizing the usual contact tracing, the letter which was dated 31st March 2020 added that it will “Conduct compulsory house to house testing of every individual residing in Ayawaso West Municipality”

Residents of Ayawaso West Wuogon and asking questions. so is Mr. John Dumelo the NDC candidate for the electoral area who twitted on the directive saying

I just came across an impending mandatory COVID-19 testing for all residents of Ayawaso-West starting tomorrow 1st April.

I just have a few questions.

1. Have the residents( communities) been duly informed about this?

2. We have over 100,000 individuals in Ayawaso West

The exercise is expected to start from today 1st April 2020 and end on the 10th of April 2020. Over 100 health and security personnel are expected to help in the exercise.

The letter was signed by Dr. Louisa Matey, the Municipality Director of Health