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COVID-19: 695 persons tested positive at fish-processing factory
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The Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe said the final figures were arrived at after the coronavirus test results were received for the entire 1,300 staff of the company.
It will be recalled that the GHS had earlier announced that one worker who contracted the disease had infected over 500 workers at the factory.
Recoveries
Dr Bekoe disclosed that 95 percent of the 695 infected persons have since recovered from the illness.
Addressing a press briefing Tuesday morning [May 19, 2020] in Accra, he said the factory was immediately closed down for a GHS assessment after the first case was reported.
He said social distancing was absent at various areas of the factory’s operations such as the canteen, staff bus and their biometric clock-in devices which he described as “pre-disposing factors” for spreading infections.
Factory
On May 12, 2020, the fish processing company, Pioneer Food Cannery confirmed that a member of its staff tested positive for coronavirus following the government’s announcement that over 500 workers in a factory at Tema had been infected after one worker contracted the disease.
The company in a statement said, as soon as the first case was confirmed, it temporarily closed down the factory for disinfection and cleaning while staff were made to the self-quarantine with contact tracing starting immediately.
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