Fifty-five out of 314 test samples taken from pupils and teachers of the Accra Girls’ Senior High School have returned positive for COVID-19, creating panic across the length and breadth of Ghana’s capital.
A joint statement by the country’s education and health authorities, which confirmed this, added that those with close contacts with the affected have also been quarantined.
Giving an insight into the unfortunate inncident, a veteran journalist in Ghana, Francis Kotutse, noted that some protocols set by the government before reopening of schools were violated by the government itself, some he parents and some politicians.
“It is a sad situation,” he declared to Platforms Africa, adding; “As part of the regulations put in place before the reopening of the schools, parents were asked not to visit their children.”
But, officials from the Electoral Commission, he said, “are registering students to vote in December election. In addition, some ruling party activists have been sighted talking to students in a school. This has angered some parents.”
