The Upper West Regional Police Commander, DCOP Francis Aboagye Nyarko has confirmed the arrest of a Nigerian man who escaped after testing positive for the deadly coronavirus.
DCOP Francis Aboagye Nyarko who confirmed the arrest revealed that the patient was arrested in a compound house near the Wa Polytechnic.
He has since been handed over to the COVID-19 team led by the regional minister, Hon. Dr Hafiz Bin Salih. The Seven people whom he came into contact with have been picked up and placed under quarantine at the Upper West Regional Hospital.
The Nigerian national was kept under surveillance at his residence by officials of the Ghana Health Service awaiting the outcome of his test results for COVID-19 which came out positive last Monday.
The 46-year-old Nigerian was however nowhere to be found when health officials followed up to his residence at Wapaani, a suburb of Wa to transport him to the isolation centre at the Upper West Regional Hospital.
