The Tema COVID-19 Response Team last week commenced meticulous tracing and testing of people who have interacted with the 533 employees that tested positive at the Fish Processing Company in Tema.
Those who tested positive were initially made to self-isolate but have now been sent to official isolation centres where they are being treated.
The Tema Metropolitan Health Director, Dr Sally Quartey, disclosed this Wednesday when the team toured some industries in Tema to have a firsthand view of measures being implemented to prevent the spread of the new Coronavirus.
The team visited the Unilever Ghana factory, KaysensGaisie Limited and the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC).
Though Dr Quartey did not indicate the number of contacts so far reached she noted personnel undertaking the exercise were doing their best to track, counsel and test all those concerned in a bid to rein in the deadly virus.
It is recalled that in a state address on Sunday President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo disclosed that one person infected 533 employees in a fish processing company in Tema.
Nana Addo added that the 533 positive cases, which represent around 11.3% of Ghana’s total infections, were part of a backlog of about 921 cases going back as far as April 26 that was only recently been reported.
Dr Quartey cautioned employees to make a conscious effort to wash their hands often with soap under running water whenever they touched surfaces and door handles.
She explained that most companies had provided hygiene stations at vantage points for employees to sanitise but “one’s attitude to utilise the resource and the commitment to social distancing is another thing”.
She stressed the need for individuals to be responsible and do whatever they could to avoid contracting the virus as some people being asymptomatic harboured the virus without showing any signs.
At the Uniliver plant, the Supply Chain Director, Bernie Conyers, conducted the team round the Lipton factory and the workers’ canteen after they had rigorously gone through temperature tests and handwashing protocols.At the canteen, Mr Conyers said employees had lunch on a rotational basis(social distancing) and only two employees sat at the opposite ends of a table previously occupied by about four people.The company doctor, Dr Kwaku Sarkodie, said a building in their yard had been reserved as a quarantine bay for any person with fever and other symptoms of COVID-19 while arrangements for the intervention of the Tema Metropolitan COVID-19 Response Team are made.At the KaysensGaisie […]