Positive Covid-19 cases among foreigners arriving at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) is being recorded at an alarming rate.
The increment in daily tests as noted by Frontier Health Services – the health service provider mandated to test arriving passengers at KIA – has reached unprecedented levels.
In a letter to the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) dated April 24, 2021, Frontier Health Services (FHS) stated that positive recorded cases of Covid-19 on April 21, was 45. The number however, jumped by 30 cases within three days as positive cases recorded on April 24, rose to 75.
FHS in the letter appealed to GACL and government to as a matter of urgency implement stringent measures on the quality of PCR test results acceptable for entry into the country.
Adding new guidelines must be implemented at KIA by the government to curtail the influx of positive cases into the country.
This is the first time there has been such an increment in Covid-19 cases recorded at KIA since the reopening of the airport on September 1 last year.
It is also the first time the government has been notified by the FHS of the ‘poor quality’ of PCR tests submitted by arriving passengers and accepted by the airport authorities.
Ghana’s active case count of Covid-19 as at April 20, 2021, stood at 1,419 with 777 deaths recorded so far.
