Ghana’s deputy trade and industry minister Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah has resigned for violating coronavirus self-isolation measures after testing positive for the virus.
His office announcing this in a statement said;
His resignation has been accepted by President Nana Akufo-Addo with “immediate effect”. This follows the admission by the deputy minister of his breach of the COVID-19 protocols, when, as a person certified to be positive of the virus, he visited a registration centre in his constituency before the period of self-isolation was complete.
The presidency said that the minister ought to have led by example rather than violate self-isolation protocols.
The former minister told AFP that as an asymptomatic patient he was not a major threat to other people.
Ahenkorah added;
I have COVID-19, but I’m asymptomatic. There is nothing shameful in catching COVID. I never got in the midst of people at the registration centre. I spoke to a few people at the centre and left.
As globally recommended, Ghana adopted safety measures to curb the spread of the virus, which includes self-isolation, lockdown, mask-wearing and social distancing.
The disease has so far infected 18,134 people and claimed 117 lives in the west African nation.
