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Source: Daily Mail

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor and his wife Theresa are not on self-isolation as a result of coronavirus, contrary to news making rounds, his aide confirmed to Dailymailgh.com.

News has it that the former first family have been asked to isolate having come into direct contact with an infected person.

However, speaking to Dailymailgh.com on Sunday, the spokesperson of Kufuor, Kwabena Osei-Adubofour said “it’s not true.”

“He just moved to his new house at Peduase about three days ago and that’s where he lives now. There is nothing about COVID-19. He and his family are safe and in good condition,” he added.

The news follows a statement from the Information Ministry announcing a 14-day self-isolation for President Akufo-Addo after one of his inner circles tested positive for COVID-19.

“On the advice of doctors, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is from today, July 4, 2020, taking a fourteen (14) day precautionary self-isolation measure in compliance with COVID-19 protocols,” the statement signed by Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said.

The statement noted that “the President has elected to do so after at least one person within his close circle tested positive for COVID-19 today.”

The statement further noted, although President Akufo-Addo has tested negative for the virus, he has still decided to self-isolate “out of the abundance of caution.”

“The President will during this precautionary self-isolation period, be working from the Presidential Villa at the Jubilee House, Accra,” the statement added. It was not immediately clear how Akufo-Addo’s steps to self-isolate would impact his professional or public engagements.

COVID-19 COUNT IN GHANA

Ghana has confirmed 697 new Covid-19 cases pushing the country’s caseload to 20,085.

The latest data from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) also confirmed that 122 persons have died after contracting the deadly contagion.

The number of active cases are 5,093 with the discharges/recoveries count pegged at 14,870.

Source: Class FM

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has vouched that until the COVID-19 pandemic goes, his Wole Soyinka-like hairdo will not go.

“I wanted to provide evidence that I was also hibernating and I have decided until it [COVID-19] goes, this hair won’t go”, Mr Rawlings told Accra-based Asaase.

“As soon as it [COVID-19] goes, yes [my hair will also go],” Mr Rawlings told Kweku Sakyi-Addo in an interview.

When he recently addressed the June 4 Uprising anniversary in Accra, the former military leader joked: “For those of you who are wondering about this ‘Moses brush’; if you want, call it ‘Moses broom’, since the President has decided he will use his shaven head to get rid of COVID-19, I will use [my] Moses brush to get rid of it and when it happens, then I think we can go back to our normal look.”

A few days ago, Mr Rawlings condemned the manner in which social gatherings were held without regard to COVID-19 protocols.

He said Ghanaians must not think the COVID-19 pandemic has lessened its grip or weakened its potency to let down their guard.

“Let us wake up! There are too many gatherings that ignore COVID-19 preventive protocols”, Mr Rawlings said in a statement.

“As we go through the process of voter registration, let us not let down our guard”, he advised, warning: “It may be our last mistake”.

“Let’s wear our masks, maintain appropriate social distancing, basic cough etiquette and proper hand and general hygiene protocols”, the former President urged.

Among the 122 people the virus has killed so far is the CEO of the Forestry Commission, Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly called Sir John.

Also, the Sekondi-Takoradi mayor died of it.

Furthermore, four doctors have succumbed to it with 150 other health professionals stricken by it.

So far, prominent people such as the Minister of Regional Reorganisation Mr Dan Botwe, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the UK & Ireland Papa Owusu Ankomah, the governing New Patriotic Party’s Campaign Manager Peter Mac Manu, Tema West MP Carlos Ahenkorah, among others, have tested positive.

Also, President Nana Akufo-Addo has gone into a 14-day self-isolation after he got exposed to a COVID-19-positive person, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said in a statement issued on Saturday, 4 July 2020.

“On the advice of doctors, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is from today, 4 July 2020, taking a 14-day precautionary self-isolation measure in compliance with COVID-19 protocols,” the statement added.

It said: “The President has elected to do so after, at least, one person within his close circle, tested positive for COVID-19 today.”

According to the statement, the President opted to self-isolate “out of the abundance of caution” even though he has tested negative for the virus.

“The President will, during this precautionary self-isolation period, be working from the Presidential Villa at the Jubilee House, Accra,” the statement added.

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

The Presidency says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is observing a 14-day self-isolation precautionary measure at the Presidential Villa in the Jubilee House.

An earlier reportage by the Herald Newspaper claimed that the president was on Saturday “flown out of the country to London for COVID-19 treatment” after testing positive.

The paper also alleged that aides to the president have tested positive for the coronavirus and are in quarantine.

But Eugene Arhin, the Director of Communications at the presidency in a Facebook post described the reportage as “figment of the author’s imagination”.

He urged the public to disregard the false story.

Mr Arhin, then, shared a photo of a smiling Akufo-Addo in self-isolation with his wife and children.

Read below Eugene Arhin’s full post below.

Kindly disregard the FALSE STORY published by the Herald Newspaper to the effect that the President was on Saturday “flown out of the country to London for COVID-19 treatment”. It is clearly a figment of the author’s imagination.

The President is in the country, and he’s currently at the Presidential Villa in Jubilee House, observing the 14-day self-isolation precautionary measure, in compliance with COVID-19 protocols.