COVID-19: Ghana's health insurance boss tests positive

The Head of Ghana’s Health Insurance Authority, NHIA, Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby has tested positive for COVID-19.

Dr Dsane-Selby made the announcement on Monday during an interview on a local network, according to Africa News.

She revealed that she decided to get tested after she started experiencing tiredness, bodily pains and headaches.

According to the Ghana News Agency, the NHIA boss has since gone into self- isolation to prevent her from exposing others to the virus.

Dr Dsane-Selby also contacted those she had come into contact with to go for voluntary testing, the local media added.

She becomes the fourth known government official to have tested positive for COVID-19. The first being Papa Owusu-Ankomah, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, who has since recovered.

Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu’s infection was reported last week while Mr Anthony K. K Sam, the Mayor of Sekondi-Takoradi also succumbed to the disease on Friday, June 12.

As at the time of this report, MyNigeria gathered from Worldometers that Ghana has recorded a total of 12,193 confirmed cases, 4,326 recoveries, 58 fatalities and at least 7,809 active cases.