Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway is saying that three Ghanaians have been killed by the coronavirus outbreak in Italy and Denmark.
According to Ayorkor Botchway, two of them died in Italy.
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She, however, says the situation is not critical and won’t require the evacuation of Ghanaians in hard-hit countries.
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Ayorkor Botchway made this assertion in parliament when she adddresed journalist in parliament.
Yesterday, Ghana confirmed the seventh case of coronavirus in the country.
The patient is a 35-year-old male who returned from France
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A tweet from the Ghana Health Service said, “This afternoon (17 March 2020); we have received a report from NMIMR that indicated one (1) more confirmed case as positive for COVID-19 in Greater Accra Region.”
The patient is a Ghanaian citizen.