The Northern Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr John Eleeza, is predicting serious challenges in the coming days in tracing contacts of the 12 new cases the region has recorded.
He attributed the challenge he is predicting to the delay in the release of the results of the 12 new cases which arrived on Friday.
Dr Eleeza said the 200 samples of contacts of the two cases that were recorded earlier were submitted to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research on April 22 but the results arrived on Friday.
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Addressing the media in Tamale, Dr Eleeza said with this new cases it means the region’s community transmission is spreading.
He gave a breakdown of the new cases as nine males and three females with the age range between five and 51 years.
